Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-24 Thread R.S.
Skip, As I wrote the distance and the treffic type decides whether ESCON is applicable or not. In your case - 100km, remote CU - it's not. BTW: It seems the earthquake is limiting factor for you, why don't you get rid of the earthquakes? We don't use earthquakes at all... vbg BTW2: I live

Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-24 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: BTW: It seems the earthquake is limiting factor for you, why don't you get rid of the earthquakes? We don't use earthquakes at all... vbg Thanks for shaking us with this shaking news! :-D BTW2: I live on watershed. We don't have rivers, lakes, floods, mines,

Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Seriously: A datacenter location should be planned carefully and the most important factor is natural and human (like airport) threat existence. After September 2001, we know that. But, the first data centre I worked at was within 2km of Pearson International (Toronto) Airport, in 1981. - Ted

Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-24 Thread Ed Gould
Ted, One place I worked was at the edge of Ohare field. I have no idea what they were thinking outside of the fact that the could get tapes in and out of the city quickly. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-24 Thread Bill Fairchild
Subject: Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions Ted, One place I worked was at the edge of Ohare field. I have no idea what they were thinking outside of the fact that the could get tapes in and out of the city quickly. Ed -- For IBM

Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-24 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
Years ago, at an employer far, far away, we used to perform our disaster recovery tests in Chicago. From the parking lot on those late nights, I remember watching the string of airplanes overhead lining up to land at O'Hare. At first, it was just in amazement at how many planes there were in that

Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-24 Thread Schwartz, Alan
Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chicklon, Thomas Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions Years ago, at an employer far, far away, we used to perform our disaster recovery tests

Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-23 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-06-22 22:47, Skip Robinson pisze: We run FICON DASD and tape connections between data centers over DWDM ('dark fiber'). Network distance is about 120 KM. The primary purpose for DASD is mirroring for DR; tape is used the same as local tape. It all works great. DO NOT attempt to run

Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-23 Thread Skip Robinson
Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 06/23/2011 04:38 AM Subject:Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu W dniu 2011-06-22 22:47, Skip

Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-22 Thread Klein, Kevin
My company is currently running from our hotsite after declaring and executing a disaster at our primary site (too close to the Missouri River this summer). We're looking for alternate sites to move our primary site to that are closer to home. I guess we were kind of in denial that we'd ever

Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-22 Thread Neubert, Kevin
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Klein, Kevin Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 12:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Escon and Ficon Extensions My company is currently running from our hotsite after declaring and executing a disaster at our primary site (too close to the Missouri River

Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.opticatech.com/?page_id=49 3KM native, 16KM with a FICON Bridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESCON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICON On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Klein, Kevin k.kl...@gwccnet.com wrote: My company is currently running from our hotsite after declaring and

Re: DR Plans (WAS: Escon and Ficon Extensions)

2011-06-22 Thread Ted MacNEIL
It's amazing what comes up in an actual disaster that never made it into our semi-annual tests. Considering the circumstances of a disaster, it wouldn't amaze me. In 1969, the Canadian government started forcing all financial institutions, over a certain size, to implement a DR plan, and test

Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-22 Thread Skip Robinson
Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Klein, Kevin k.kl...@gwccnet.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 06/22/2011 12:54 PM Subject:Escon and Ficon Extensions Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu My company is currently running from

Re: DR Plans (WAS: Escon and Ficon Extensions)

2011-06-22 Thread Wayne Driscoll
=== From: Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 06/22/2011 03:18 PM Subject: Re: DR Plans (WAS: Escon and Ficon Extensions) Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu It's amazing what comes up in an actual disaster that never made it into our semi-annual