No HW required besides the two Ficon ports and a short cable. At the SW side: configure them in the IOCP.
2011/7/18 Crispin Hugo <crispin.h...@macro4.com> > Is there a way I can configure CTC's between LPAR's in same physical box > without going out and buying hardware? > > I saw somewhere that one could use share CHPID's with other devices > using TYPE=FC. Does this only work if going out to Ficon switch ? > > > I do have a Ficon express 8 card with 1 unused port, Can I do anything > with that ? > > I do have a Ficon card with 2 currently unused ports port on it. Can > this be used to join the LPAR's together by cabling 1 port to the other. > > All this is to create a z/VM 6.1 cse with 2 LPARs. > > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This email has been scanned for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Email > Security Service and the Macro 4 internal virus protection system. > . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
