Document Outline

• Contents
• Preface
  • Document conventions
    • Text formatting conventions
    • Command syntax conventions
    • Notes, cautions, and warnings
  • Brocade resources
  • Contacting Brocade Technical Support
  • Document feedback
• About This Document
  • Supported hardware and software
  • Additional FICON resources
  • What’s new in this document
• Introducing FICON
  • FICON overview
    • Fabric OS support for FICON
    • Latency guideline
  • FICON concepts
  • FICON configurations
    • Switched point-to-point
    • Cascaded FICON
      • Qualified FICON cascaded configurations
      • Extended fabric configurations
  • Access control in FICON
    • Cascaded zoning
    • Error reporting
    • Secure access control
  • FICON commands
  • Link and FC addressing
    • Domain ID
    • Port area
    • ALPA
• Administering FICON Fabrics
  • User security considerations
  • Meeting high-integrity fabric requirements
    • Enabling the insistent domain ID
    • Creating and activating the SCC policy
    • Enabling the fabric-wide consistency policy
    • Enabling High-Integrity Fabric mode
    • Using other security commands
      • Disabling the fabric-wide consistency policy
      • Displaying the fabric-wide consistency policy
      • Displaying the current security policy
      • Deleting the SCC_POLICY
      • Recovering the E_Port
  • Preparing a switch for FICON
    • Cascaded FICON and two-byte addressing considerations
  • Configuring switched point-to-point FICON
  • Configuring cascaded FICON
  • FCR and FICON cascading
  • FICON and FICON CUP in Virtual Fabrics
  • Addressing modes
    • Mode 0 (10-bit addressing)
    • Mode 1 (zero-based addressing)
    • Mode 2 (port-based addressing)
    • Changing the addressing mode
    • FICON and blade support for addressing modes
    • Port swap limitations
  • Disabling and enabling ports - persistent states
  • Clearing the FICON management database
  • Automating CS_CTL mapping
  • FICON best practices
  • Latency guideline
• Configuring FICON CUP
  • Control Unit Port overview
    • FICON CUP restrictions
    • CUP configuration recommendations
    • FICON CUP zoning and PDCM considerations
  • Port and switch naming standards for FMS mode
    • FICON CUP Fabric OS commands
  • Configuring FICON CUP
    • Disabling ports 0xFE and 0xFF
    • Configuring FICON CUP in Virtual Fabrics
  • Determining physical port assignment
  • FMS mode and FICON CUP
    • Fabric OS command limitations and considerations
    • Displaying FMS mode
    • Enabling FMS mode
    • Disabling FMS mode
    • Resetting FMS mode
    • FMS mode and FICON OxFE or OxFF ports
    • Upgrade considerations
    • Port swap limitations
  • Mode register bit settings
    • FICON file access facility
      • Configuration files uploaded
      • Configuration files downloaded with Active=Saved mode enabled
      • Configuration files downloaded with Active=Saved mode disabled
      • Sample IOCP configuration file
    • Considerations for setting mode register bits
    • Setting the mode register bits
  • Setting the MIHPTO value
  • Persistently enabling and disabling ports for CUP
• Administering FICON Extension Services
  • Platforms supporting FICON extension over IP
  • FICON emulation overview
    • IBM z/OS Global Mirror emulation
    • Tape emulation
      • Tape Write Pipelining
      • Tape Read Pipelining
      • FICON and ESCON conversion support
    • Printer emulation
    • Teradata emulation
  • FCIP configuration requirements for FICON extension
  • Configuration requirements for switches and backbones
    • High-integrity fabric requirements for cascaded configurations
    • FICON emulation requirement for a determinate path
      • FCIP tunnel between sites
  • Configuring FICON emulation
    • Configuration examples
    • Displaying FICON emulation configuration values
  • Modifying FICON emulation
  • Displaying FICON emulation performance statistics
    • FICON emulation monitoring
      • Emulation statistics examples
    • Options for displaying statistics
• Maintaining and Troubleshooting FICON
  • Firmware management in a FICON environment
    • Upgrade and downgrade considerations
    • Firmware download disruption
    • Non-disruptive firmware upload and download
      • Considerations for fixed-port switches
  • Configuration restoration in a FICON environment
  • Traffic Isolation Zoning
    • Determining ports for the TI Zone
    • Enhanced TI Zoning
      • Triangular topology
      • System Data Mover topology
      • Emulation topology
  • Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite
  • Port fencing
    • Defining port fencing
    • Settings for FICON environments
  • FICON information
    • Link incidents
      • Identifying ports
    • Registered listeners
    • Node identification data
    • FRU error reporting
      • Error data
      • FRU numbers
  • Swapping port area IDs
    • Important notes
  • Blade swapping
  • Common FICON issues
  • Troubleshooting FICON
    • General information to gather for all cases
    • Switched point-to-point topology checklist
    • Cascaded topology checklist
    • Gathering additional information
    • CUP diagnostics
  • Troubleshooting FICON CUP
  • Troubleshooting NPIV
• Platforms Supporting FICON
  • Introduction
  • Supported platforms with end-of-support announcements
  • Currently supported platforms
  • Supported Brocade blades
    • Unsupported blades
• Basic Switch Configuration
• Address Binding Examples
  • Sequential address binding
    • Example scripts for binding ports
  • Port-based address binding
    • Example scripts for binding ports
  • Unbinding multiple ports
• Configuration Information Record
• EBCDIC Code Page
• Index