Brocade FICON Administrator's Guide v7.1.0 (53-1002753-01, March 2013)

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FICON configurations
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• 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 allows the channel to use
single-byte addressing. Cascaded configurations require two-byte addressing, Figure 2 illustrates
an example of the switched point-to-point configuration.
FIGURE 2 Switched point-to-point FICON