FICON Administrator's Guide v6.4.0 (53-1001771-01, June 2010)

6 FICON Administrator’s Guide
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FICON configurations
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• Systems Operations (SysOps)
This provides the ability to monitor and control all subsystems in a sysplex from any system in
the sysplex. This includes controlled startup, controlled shutdown, and automated recovery of
software resources.
• Sysplex
In IBM mainframe computers, a Systems Complex, commonly called a sysplex, allows multiple
processors to be joined into a single unit, sharing the same sysplex name and Couple Data
Sets.
FICON configurations
There are two types of FICON configurations that are supported using Brocade Fabric OS: switched
point-to-point and cascaded topologies.
Switched point-to-point
A single-switch configuration is called switched point-to-point and requires that the channel is
configured to use single-byte addressing. If the channel is set up for 2-byte addressing, then the
cascaded configuration setup applies.
FIGURE 2 Switched point-to-point FICON