MICS to CICS & <-, dialing dn's thru ATA2

[Brutalis]

Gooday Folks;
We are newbies to this site and we have had an unusual request. We
have a customer that wants to have 2 seperate systems in the same bldg (MICS 7.0 W/C.P.150 & CICS 7.0 W/C.P.100). They would like to be able to dial ext'ns between systems (ie. 2xx on MICS can dial to 3xx or 4xx on CICS & vice versa), and the only way we have set this up before was to have an ata dedicated to a trunk (on the other system) which worked for
a cust. in the past but not this one.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[bwtc]

With 2 MICS, you could setup a T1 card as an E&M, with a cross-over T1 cable.

Are you sure this isn't how the other customer was setup?

 

[exsmogger]

The ATA needs to have its prime line set to intercom.

Brian Cox

http://www.jandjcommunications.com

 

[Brutalis]

No, the first customer had 1 ata per each ext. on the 2nd phn system. Each ata took up 1 trunk on 2nd system.
Re: 2 T1 cards, do you mean enabling 2 DTI cards and have a x-over cable running between them? Would that fool the systems
into thinking there was a PRI between them and allow multiple calls?
Thank you.

 

[CBasicAsslember]

DTI card is not an option on the CICS. You may however be able to use a couple of BRI cards.

 

[RikRodgers]

We have a couple customers set up the same way. (with ATA's to CO ports) They work fine, but they're not running 7.0.

What sort of trouble were you having?

 

[xtelstar]

ATA's as trunks are fine. The dialing plan needs to select the ata trunk to make a call. I've used destination code 2xx for example to be -dial 2xx, absorb none, use route 00x which selects line pool for ata. Can be tricky working out. All the destination code rules apply, can't be same as dn, line pool codes ect. Sometimes easier to give it a line pool access code- dial 8, gives you an ata dial tone then your on the other system and can dial any valid extension.See info on unified dialing plan(8+dn) and co-ordinated dialing (2xx)which means dns have to be unique. Can't have a dest code that is same as a dn on dial out system.