> I think the answer is no, but I would like to know if you can > get a Ficon channel card for a Multiprise 2000. We want to > connect the Multiprise to external DASD. We were planning on > having Escon and Ficon connections to the external DASD at the > same time, but it looks like we can only have one or the other, > not both, and if we switch connectors, the data space must be > wiped and redefined. So there goes our migration plan. The only > Escon to Ficon converters I can find connect Ficon channels to > Escon devices, not the other way around.
Peter: You can NOT put FICON features into a MP2000 (G3 technology). FICON came with G5 technology in 1998. Jim