I absolutely agree with you regarding the advantages of the MII/MIA products in environments where "beyond the nnnn-plex boundary sharing" is required.
Further, the MII/MIA products were always of very high quality, in my experience. Brian On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:07:08 -0400, Richard Bond wrote: >Main reason to have MII/MIA in the first place is so you don't have those restrictions (with due regard to PDSE's): > >Sysplex NE MIM-plex NE SMS-plex NE MIA-plex Kudos to those who can avoid that in a large, fast-growing shop. > >(There are other pluses as well.) > >Dick >HFHS >Mainframe Administration > >>>> "Brian Peterson" 6/20/2008 11:29:10 AM >>> > >I've done a MIM to GRS Star conversion at two different shops, and I thought >it was pretty easy. > >Its easy IF: > >SYS-plex = GRS-plex = SMS-plex = TAPE-DEVICE-SHARING-plex > >It is NOT easy if you HAVE to share dasd beyond the boundary of a sysplex. >In my case, I fixed that first, and then once the Sysplex boundary was the >same as the shared-dasd boundary, then the project was easy. > >My opinion. > >Brian > >On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:12:37 +0200, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM wrote: > >>"Peter X. DeFabritus" wrote in message >>> I found a Techdoc as a possibility: >>> >>> http://www- >03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/TD103317 >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>Thanks, >> >>I will study it, it looks useful at first glance. >> >>Kees. >> >> >>At a second glance, it is mostly a list of reasons why the conversion is >>not easy to accomplish and why it is advisable to hire IBM to do it. >> >>Kees. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
