IBM Has Announced that ESCON Channels Will Be Phased Out - So, What Should I Do?
Project and Program:
Enterprise Data Center,
Communications Server
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Proceedings,
SHARE in Anaheim 2011,
2011
How do you prepare for the eventual elimination of ESCON channel connectivity on your mainframe systems while maintaining a mixed peripheral environment that includes ESCON, as well as parallel devices? IBM, Optica and Cisco will introduce you to a strategy called Managed Evolution for System z that helps optimize your I/O environment while minimizing costs and improving efficiencies and performance. Managed Evolution provides System z users with maximum flexibility as you create an infrastructure that satisfies current and future workload requirements while establishing a FICON migration path for existing ESCON and parallel devices that can be pursued over any timeframe.
Presenter(s): Sean Seitz, Optica; Patty Driever, IBM Corporation and Tony Almeida, Cisco Systems, Inc.
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