Leveraging IMS3

<BODY text="#000066" link="blue" vlink="purple" alink="red" background=""> <A NAME="pgtop"></A> <A HREF="indexc.htm"><Img Src="flconts.gif" ALT="Table of Contents" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <A HREF="index16.htm"><Img Src="fllarrow.gif" ALT="Previous" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <A HREF="index18.htm"><Img Src="flrarrow.gif" ALT="Next" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <A HREF="#pgbot"><Img Src="flnote.gif" ALT="Speaker Notes" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <BR> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC="index17.gif" WIDTH="443" HEIGHT="342" ALT="Page Image"> <HR ALIGN="left" size=5 WIDTH="65%"> <A NAME="pgbot"></A> <UL><LI>IMS is providing support for the Fiber Connection (FICON) Channel-to Channel (CTC) support through its Multiple Systems Coupling (MSC) Facility, enabling higher message throughput between processors. <LI>IMS MSC FICON CTC support increases the volume of IMS messages that can go between IMS systems when using the IMS MSC facility. The IMS MSC facility provides reliable, high bandwidth host-to-host communications support between IMS systems that IMS customers require. CTC is one of the physical host-to-host MSC connections supported by IMS. With the CTC bandwidth now being enhanced through the FICON channel support for CTCs on the new IBM zSeries processors, it is estimated that one FICON CHPID can do the work of a number of ESCON CHPIDs. This increased capability is the result of the faster data transfer and higher throughputs of FICON. The distance between hosts can also be increased. IMS MSC support, provided for this new FICON CTC support, could greatly improve the bandwidth across systems. IMS MSC Ficon CTC support requires at least one side of the MSC link be an IBM zSeries with the FICON channel and FICON CTC microcode. The other side (IMS) can be any processor with a FICON channel. </UL> <HR ALIGN=left size=5 WIDTH=65%> <A HREF="#pgtop"><Img Src="flpage.gif" ALT="Top of Page" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <FONT SIZE="-2">Published by <A HREF="http://www.lotus.com">Lotus</A>® <A HREF="http://www.lotus.com/freelance">Freelance Graphics</A>®</FONT> </BODY>