Expanding a CICS

[galfaro]

What is needed to expand a CICS to it's full capacity? I believe you can have 16 co's and 24 ext's. I could be wrong, but if someone has info on this and what is needed to acomplish this, i would appreciate it.
Gabriel

 

[MarvO1]

You can have up to 8 Loop start lines and up to 24 station ports, plus 1 built in ATA.
The restricted cart supports 4 lines and 8 stations, but can be upgraded to 8x24 with keycodes.
To get more than 16 station ports, you need to add an EXPANSION cartridge to get the additional 8 ports,for a total of 24 station ports.
You can also enable the I-RAD port with keycodes if it is not already enabled with your software cart. It will not use up one of your ports.
Where you are seeing the 16 co lines in the literature is in fact when using BRI cards configured as S or T or NT and assigning one or more ISDN DNs to the loop.
I personally have done very little with BRI on CICS. ISDN is too expensive in my neck of the woods.

Hope that helps.


MarvO said it

 

[galfaro]

Thanks MARVO.
Gabriel

 

[jerryreeve]

If you REALLY need more than 8 lines you can go to 2 bri-4 cards that will give you 8 BRI's (16 D channels), like marv0 said, I did this for one customer to get them 12 trunk/lines. the payoff depends on your LEC and this cusstomer was making enough local calls to pay for the monthly costs.

don't forget that you have one IATA available also for analog devices.

JerryReeve
Communications Systems Int'l
com-sys.com