In a previous life, I had a service machine wake up every n minutes and issue "start" commands for ISFC, RSCS, and PVM links. If there was a problem, on average it would be resolved in n/2 minutes on average, without me getting a wakeup call in the middle of the night.
Mark Wheeler UnitedHealth Group > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:29:30 -0400 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CSE and redundant connections > To: [email protected] > > On Tuesday, 08/17/2010 at 03:48 EDT, RPN01 <[email protected]> wrote: > > The ISFC links do show as one being up and the other down. Do you know > if it > > will automatically switch to the back-up connection should the first one > > fail, or will it take manual intervention? > > Manual intervention. ISFC does not today have the concept of parallel > links or primary/backup links. (That is something that z/VM Single > System Image will address.) > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott
