On Monday, 08/10/2009 at 10:05 EDT, "Frank M. Ramaekers" <framaek...@ailife.com> wrote: > Yes, I understand that, but currently our TN3270 server is offloaded from the > CPU (it?s a Visara box). It seems to minimize impact to the current LPAR > (single LPAR machine), would be to get an IFL with z/VM, Linux and the > Communications Server. This has little to NO impact to the LPAR, but by > moving this server from an outboard box inward could have adverse effects > (especially on our already loaded LPAR).
Just use OSA-ICC (integrated communications controller, TYPE=OSC). It gives you a TN3270 server that, like the Visara box and the old IBM 2074, creates non-sna 3270 devices on that chpid. It can be shared across LPARs. Of course, dedicating hardware (of any flavor) for a telnet server implies that you have sufficient TN3270 traffic to justify the offload or you don't have sufficient CPU capacity to absorb the additional workload. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
