On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:38:13 +0200, Radoslaw Skorupka <r.skoru...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Thank you, however that proves nothing. >Yes, Copy Manager support Hitachi disk systems (which is NOT documented >in the mentioned manual, BTW). >Yes, Hitachi, HPE and EMC dasd arrays do support native PPRC commands. >However my question was about mixed pair of dasd arrays, that means DS8k >connected to XP8 or EMC connected to DS8k, etc. >And the question is about classic PPRC, not about XRC or PPRC-XD or other. From what I've been told in the past, no, because the comms link protocols between storage servers are proprietary. It means you can't flashcopy or or hyperswap between volumes from different vendors, it's one of the reasons TDMF exists In theory, all things are negotiable, so I suppose that could change, but if it has, I haven't seen anything about it. (Don't read too much into that.) If the status had changed, I would expect the vendor to be hawking that level of compatibility loudly as a differentiator. I wouldn't expect IBM to say anything, as it's up to the vendor to make compatibility claims, so the best answer would come from the vendor storage specialist. Sorry I can't give you more definitive information. I'll check with a storage architect and see if I can get a better answer. Alan Altmark IBM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
