On Apr 29, 2011, at 15:34, "Davey, Clair"
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Is there a way to connect a Zseries IFL only system to open systems only
storage (that do not have FICON) ?
Yes. zVM will emulate a 9336 FBA device, which works great for both CMS and
Linux. There is a performace penalty for the emulation - nothing comes for free
- but it works reliably. If you need tape, you're still stuck with FICON.
If this is possible, is it also
possible to connect a Zseries system with IFL and CP engines to open
systems only storage?
The CPU type doesn't matter. It's whether the OS running on the system can
drive FCP disk or work with emulated 9336 devices via VM.
VM, VSE and Linux all work great. zOS doesn't allow FBA disk, so you can't run
zOS using only FCP disk.
