20 Apr
2006
20 Apr
'06
12:08 p.m.
jim stephens wrote:
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
That's not the only configuration that works. If you're running
mainframe OS on a P/390, the P/390 can address the ARTIC960 as a
parallel channel inside the OS.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
<snip>
You do know that the ARTIC960 parallel channel adapters Just Work(tm)
in AIX, right?
Peace... Sridhar
are the for hooking an aix box as a device to the mainframe, or vice versa?
I believe there was discussion on the Hercules group, and there was no
support for running Bus/Tag devices from AIX. It is meant to allow an AIX box to do
something like support operations as a communications controller or other to the
Mainframe. I believe that even IBM has put in dual interfaces on
devices to allow
them to be accessed from multiple hosts, such as tape libraries haveing both Bus /
Tag for the mainframe (or Escon) as well as being scsi targets to the AIX boxes, etc.
There are plenty of devices like that. On the other hand, there are
plenty of devices that aren't.
Peace... Sridhar