Thank you very much, Jerry, for this very useful feedback. Yes, we are using the Coax Box add-on and having just horrendous problems not only with it but with the 3074 itself.
We have learned that the Visara FICON product has only 5 customers and has been available for only since Jan 1. This looks and feels more like beta testing, the bleeding edge, than implementation of a real product, The omission of ESCON from the zEC12 is proving to be a fatal mistake. It is forcing us to use these kind of unvetted products. These kind of HW oversights are reminiscent of the days when IBM prematurely converted from powerful Bi-Polar chips to underpowdered CMOS chips and customers had to flee back to the Bi-Polar boxes. When will IBM learn. But then Watts Humphrey who put the "z" in z/OS, z/VSE, and z/VM, which means literally zero-tolerance for downtime, is no longer there; he retired and died in 2010. Such unconscious mistakes would not occur if he were still around. . On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Jerry Whitteridge < jerry.whitteri...@safeway.com> wrote: > Ensure you are on the latest microcode version for the 3074's. Are you > using pure 3074 or the add on Coax box ? > > There were some challenges with the early code but it appears to stable > and functional now. > > Jerry Whitteridge > Lead Systems Programmer > Safeway Inc. > 925 951 4184 > > If you feel in control > you just aren't going fast enough. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of George Henke > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 5:31 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: VISARA Consoles FICON Get 505, 510 > > Has anyone converted VISARA consoles from ESCON to FICON? > > They work fine as ESCON, but will not talk to z/OS as FICON. > > They run off of ESCON and FICON directors respectively. > > We have done 3 PORs and each time the console's get either a 505 or a 510. > > We need VISARAs for the LMU interface for the STK SILOs, but they also > double as system consoles. > > We are going zEC12 which is pure FICON. > > The OPTICA PRISM ESCON Converters which IBM recommends must be direct to > the device, they cannot go through an ESCON director. > > So we are forced to make them FICON and need them working. > > I suppose a workaround would be to attach the ESCON VISARAs through OPTICA > PRISM ESCON Converters directly to the CEC, instead of the ESCON director. > > We are MULTISYSTEM with 4 LPARs with EMIFed CHPIDs. > > > -- > George Henke > (C) 845 401 5614 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > "Email Firewall" made the following annotations. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Warning: > All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail > system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the > recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended > only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this > message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have > received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, > distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you > have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. > > > ============================================================================== > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- George Henke (C) 845 401 5614 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
