Mark: Insofar as your first question is concerned, the last I knew, the VM:* products all expressly prohibit using distributed IUCV (i.e., they specify LOCAL=YES on the IUCV CONNECT).
Romney On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:53:15 -0500 Mark Wheeler said: >I have customers interested in clustering virtual Linux systems for high >availability. I have VM systems in two different buildings, connected via >ESCON CTCs. The idea is to set up pairs of Linux guests, one in each >building, with the absolute minimum hardware in between. One approach would >be to assign each pair of Linux guests its own CTC address pair, but I >could quickly run out of CTC addresses. Since the two systems already have >an ISFC connection, it would seem that Distributed IUCV would be an >interesting option. I'm hesitant about just setting "DISTRIBUTE IUCV YES" >in SYSTEM CONFIG because of concern about messing up all the traditional >IUCV applications (VM:Secure, VM:Backup, etc), so "DISTRIBUTE IUCV >TOLERATE" looks like a safer choice. >1) Is it safe to assume that traditional IUCV applications will not be >affected if I turn on TOLERATE? >2) Does the Linux IUCV driver support Distributed IUCV connections in >general? >3) Does the Linux IUCV driver support Distributed IUCV connections when >running in TOLERATE mode, which I understand requires that the application >specify the system that it wants to talk to? If yes, how would that be >coded? > >TIA! > >Mark Wheeler >3M Company ( celebrating our 100th anniversary today!)
