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Coupling Facility Links

To enable the communication between a Coupling Facility (CF) Logical Partition and the z/OS LPARs, special types of high-speed CF links are required. These links are important because of the impact of link performance on CF request response times. For configurations covering large distances, time spent on the link can be […]

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Coupling Facility Logical Partition

The Coupling Facility LP is defined through HCD and Processor Resource/Systems Manager (PR/SM) panels on the Hardware Management Console (HMC). Once you have defined an LP to be a coupling facility LP, only the CFCC can run in that LP. When you activate the Coupling Facility LP, the system automatically loads the […]

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Internal Coupling Facility (ICF)

ICFs are PUs in a CPC configured to run only CFCC code. The PUs are not shipped with a fixed function assignment, but are assigned during power-on reset (POR) or later non-disruptively by on demand offerings such as: CBU, CUoD, CIU, ON/OFF CoD.   Those offerings allow the customer to […]

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Coupling Facility (CF)

A coupling facility is a special logical partition that runs the coupling facility control code (CFCC) and provides high-speed caching, list processing, and locking functions in a sysplex. HCD enables you to specify whether a logical partition can be a coupling facility, operating system, or either on certain processors. You […]