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The UCD (Universal Channel Driver) and UCI (Universal Channel Interface) developer platforms vastly reduce the level of effort to develop and deploy mainframe channel attached solutions. Existing Luminex and non-Luminex ISVs and OEMs will find it easy and straight-forward to integrate their storage and networking products with the Luminex platform. New software developers can now enter the mainframe market due to a unique architecture that shields the developer from the complexity of the mainframe channel and control unit architecture. Using the platforms, time to market for new or enhanced mainframe attached storage and networking products will be significantly reduced.
The platforms incorporate Luminex’s FICON/ESCON HBA interfaces, driver and mainframe control unit development software. Resulting products will seamless integrate with Luminex’s ESCON HBA’s and with Emulex Fibre Channel HBA products. The developer platforms are available for Solaris and Linux. The Luminex ESCON HBAs are available in the PCI-X form factor while the Emulex HBAs are available in many formats including single or dual-channel and PCI-X or PCI-Express form factors and are fully RoHS compliant.
Luminex’s software development kit includes comprehensive APIs that fully abstract both the FICON and ESCON channel protocols. Software developers are freed to concentrate on the unique functionality and value of their storage and networking application instead of on the dreaded details and complexities of the mainframe channel protocols. Developers can choose to integrate at the HBA level using the Luminex Universal Channel Interface, at the driver level through
the Luminex Universal Channel Driver API or at the control unit level using Luminex’s Control Unit API. Regardless, the developer platform is designed to enable mainframe-attached storage and networking applications to operate at channel speed. |
