I understand the proprietary nature of IUCV and therefore would expect IB M to write the OCO device drivers for *BLOCKIO and for a "virtual san". I c an accept some amount of OCO stuff in my systems.
IPGATE is really nice but I hope that its functionality would be rolled i nto a more complete CSE/SSI implementation that can really be used across bot h IFL and GP processors. /Tom Kern On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:08:14 -0500, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w rote: >> Could this "Virtual San" be some modification of the Shared/Byte File >> System server? > >Biggest gotcha there is that the IUCV protocol that drives those SFS/BFS >servers isn't published anywhere, which would make it hard to implement >for non-IBM systems or mostly OCO systems, eg Linux or z/OS. > >> With IPGATE, that could even be used across LPARs via hypersockets >> and across physical machines via other TCPIP connections. > >Someday it'd be real nice if IPGATE was folded into the base VM. It's >far too useful a tool not to be available to everyone. >======================== ========================= =======================
