How about some-one going the otherway - more improbable ???. Multi-site STAR about to be broken down to a (single-CEC) ring of monoplexes. True ...
I did some numbers on the environment - CATALOG is a *BIG* contributor to GRS traffic. Historically, this customer has some catalogs on "mixed" volumes, and so converts IGGV2. Placing a few usercats on their own volumes and allowing the RESERVE to stand more than halved the GRS traffic. Doing likewise to the (shared) MCAT will halve the remainder - at least. You might all be surprised how much action your mcat(s) attract. Things can be done in preparation, but the change to ring mode instills dread. Shane ... From: "Skip Robinson" > My story is improbable but true. We have four full function parallel > sysplexes in our enterprise. Of these four, three were converted to star > mode some time ago. The fourth had at most two members, one of which was > very lightly used. So lightly used, in fact, that we stopped running it > altogether; the LPAR has not even been activated for some time. Conversion > from ring to star mode hardly seemed worth the trouble. > ... > Conclusion: even with *one* member, star mode rules. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html