I worked with a local of customer who faced the same challenge. We investigated the market and it really came down to 2 options, previously mentioned. ESCON-FICON converters, or replace the Visara nnL (11L-20L-22L-25L) SCON that doesn’t support FICON, with the CCA-3074, with native FICON support.
We worked with the Visara folks on a basis of those 2 cost options, and the fact that one of their products was effectively obsolete with the zEC12 processor, and for us, it was a lower cost solution to go with Visara, after some negotiation. For LPAR support via FICON, 12 for Dual FICON or 20 for Quad FICON as standard, where maximum LPAR’s supported, via license key upgrades, were 20 for Dual FICON and 44 for Quad FICON. BMC MainView Console Management for zEnterprise (AKA ioEnterprise) is seemingly still ESCON only. Bus-Tech had a solution, zCON, that was also ESCON initially, but since Bus-tech were acquired by EMC, I doubt whether zCON is still available. Subject: Local MCS Console Solutions From: Ed Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> We run a small, mostly "lights out" operation. When we do turn the lights on, there are local, MCS consoles (Visara NCTs) coax-attached to a Visara SCON-11L controller which multiplexes channel connections for eight LPARs over a single point-to-point ESCON attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
