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Chapter 3 Preparing for CCI Operations
The restrictions for using CCI with zLinux are:
Command device.
CCI uses a SCSI Path-through driver to access the command device. As
such, the command device must be connected through FCP adaptors.
Open Volumes via FCP.
You can control the ShadowImage and TrueCopy pair operations
without any restrictions.
Mainframe (3390-9A) Volumes via FICON.
You cannot control the volumes (3390-9A)
that are directly connected to FICON for ShadowImage pair operations. Also, mainframe
volumes must be mapped to a CHF port to address target volumes using a command
device, as shown in Figure 3.2. The mainframe volume does not have to be connected to
an FCP adaptor.
Note:
ShadowImage supports only 3390-9A multiplatform volumes. TrueCopy does not
support multiplatform volumes (including 3390-9A) via FICON.
Volume discovery via FICON.
The inqraid command discovers the FCP volume
information by using SCSI inquiry. FICON volumes can only be discovered by using RAID
Manager to convert the mainframe interface (Read_device_characteristics or
Read_configuration_data) to SCSI Inquiry. As such, the information that is required to
run the inqraid command cannot be implemented, as shown in the following example:
sles8z:/HORCM/usr/bin# ls /dev/dasd* | ./inqraid
/dev/dasda -> [ST] Unknown Ser = 1920 LDEV = 4 [HTC ] [0704_3390_0A]
/dev/dasdaa -> [ST] Unknown Ser = 62724 LDEV =4120 [HTC ] [C018_3390_0A]
/dev/dasdab -> [ST] Unknown Ser = 62724 LDEV =4121 [HTC ] [C019_3390_0A]
sles8z:/HORCM/usr/bin# ls /dev/dasd* | ./inqraid -CLI
DEVICE_FILE PORT SERIAL LDEV CTG H/M/12 SSID R:Group PRODUCT_ID
dasda - 1920 4 - - 00C0 - 0704_3390_0A
dasdaa - 62724 4120 - - 9810 - C018_3390_0A
dasdab - 62724 4121 - - 9810 - C019_3390_0A
In the previous example, the Product_ID, C019_3390_0A, has the following associations:
C019 indicates the Devno
3390 indicates the Dev_type
0A indicates the Dev_model
Note
: The following commands cannot be used because there is no PORT information:
raidscan -pd <device>, raidar -pd <device>, raidvchkscan -pd <device>
raidscan -find [conf] , mkconf
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