In the unlikely situation where you run VTAM on your z/VM systems, you can config your AVS gateways and connect the two SFS's via LU6.2.
Mark Wheeler UnitedHealth Group > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:38:33 +0100 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Old codger question: Can SFS be networked across systems? > To: [email protected] > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Les Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: > > A friend and I were (dis)cussing SFS and he thinks it can be networked > > cross-country. Possible? I would guess that it would be an authentication > > nightmare at the user level. Thoughts? > > If you share via ISFC that means both sides must be in the same > administrative domain. But given the length of the FICON connection, > it will only work for small countries ;-) > IPGATE run over TCP/IP connections and does long distance. Latency can > make it less fun for regular use, but IMHO you really should not have > critical data on a remote system. You define user access and mapping > in the IPGATE configuration files. Provided there is some > understanding between userid management on both sides, you could even > use dummy userids as the target of the mapping (eg map MAINT at SYSA > to user MAINT-A at SYSB). > > Rob
