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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.
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