For distances greater than 30 km (18.6 miles), approved third-party channel extender products and telecommunications lines are required. Long-distance URz solutions are provided based on user requirements and workload characteristics.

Supported mainframe host operating systems (OS):

USP V supports the following mainframe host operating systems (OS).

MVS, OS/390, z/OS, VOS3, MSP-EX

Optional error report communications (ERC) function requires MVS/DFP 3.2.0 or later.

If the primary and/or secondary systems consist of several CPU complexes, a SYSPLEX timer is required to provide a common time reference for the host I/O time-stamping function.

Please contact your Hitachi account team for the latest information on platform support for URz.

A computer that runs Storage Navigator (Storage Navigator computer):

The USP V Storage Navigator remote console software is required for

USP V URz operations. The URz remote console software is a component of the USP V Storage Navigator software. The URz license key(s) are required to enable the URz option(s) on the USP V storage system (see section Enabling the URz Option(s)). Separate license keys are required for each USP V storage system. For further information on USP V Storage Navigator operations, please refer to the Storage Navigator User's Guide, or contact your Hitachi account team.

Note: Administrator or URz write access to the USP V Storage Navigator Java applet program is required to perform URz operations. Users without Administrator or URz write access can only view URz information.

About the license of Universal Replicator for z/OS:

If you want to use Universal Replicator for z/OS, you must install not only a license for Universal Replicator for z/OSbut also a license for TrueCopy for z/OS.

Connection with TagmaStore USP/NSC

URz can execute remote copy operations by connecting USP V with TagmaStore USP/NSC. Specifically, the following configurations are supported.

System configuration for remote copy operation using URz from USP V to TagmaStore USP/NSC.

System configuration for remote copy operation using URz from TagmaStore USP/NSC to USP V using.

Note: For detailed information about the connection with TagmaStore USP/NSC, see section Configuration that TagmaStore USP/NSC and USP V is Connected.

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