Mainframe FICON and switches are separate from network and open systems. By design. ;-)
. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Hare Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 1:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: IPLing z/OS 2.1+ with no NIP console Do these chpids connect to any fiber switches not controlled by you? I got called very early one morning due to a bunch of channel errors. At the data center where I worked, fiber switches were not owned by our group. The brainiacs who did own responsibility for the switch decided to take half of one down for some sort of change / maintenance and didn't bother to tell anyone who had equipment connected to it. Needless to say, no mainframer after that wanted to configure tape or DASD through those switches. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
