Just so you know, it's not SYSPLEX that you need, it's GRS and you have have that with just a couple FICON ports.
I have been doing it at several sites now that really don't need CF's (and some who can't afford them) and it works very well, no problems at all. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN