Given an IFL running zVM and several Linux/390 images, is it better to fan out to all the Linux images from zVM's TCPIP, or should TCPIP talk to a selection of images, with these images each handling several end machines, more like a tree structure? What would be the advantages and disadvantages of either method, and is there a "break-even" point below which you'd want to fan from TCPIP, but above which you'd want "helper" images?
If two images have a need to talk to each other, is it better to connect them directly, or just allow them to converse through zVM's TCPIP? And lastly: When I install SuSE, it lists the IUCV driver as experimental. Is it experimental, but stable, and I should take a look at it, or is it experimental, and unstable, and I should stick to the vCTCA's I'm currently using? Thanks in advance for any and all opinions. ---- Robert P. Nix internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mayo Clinic phone: 507-284-0844 200 1st St. SW page: 507-255-3450 Rochester, MN 55905 ---- "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different."
