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How can I determine if SMC-R applies to my environment and what level of benefit I might expect?

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Question

How can I determine if SMC-R applies to my environment and what level of benefit I might expect?

Answer

"IBM has provided a new tool called the SMC Applicability Tool (SMCAT). The SMCAT has been provided for z/OS V1R13 and V2R1 (via PTFs). The tool does not have any dependency on RoCE or SMC-R. Instead SMCAT will monitor your TCP/IP traffic for a specified IP address, group of IP addresses or IP subnets and then produce a summary report describing the network traffic associated with the monitored addresses.

The summary report will provide information about how much traffic (percentage) to/from those IP addresses is eligible for and well suited for SMC-R.

SMCAT PTFs:

  • V1R13: APAR PI27252 PTF UI24872

  • V2R1: APAR PI29165 PTFs UI24762 and UI24763"

The SMCAT Overview document is available here:
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/os/systemz/pdf/SMC_Applicability_Tool_Overview_3-03-15.pdf (Linda Harrison, SMC-R RoCE FAQ Document, http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FQ131485)

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Product Synonym

ZOSCS COMMSERVER

Document Information

Modified date:
28 April 2015

UID

dwa1188651

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