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

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About This Document
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
How this document is organized
This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible.
The document contains the following components:
• Chapter 1, “Introducing FICON” provides basic FICON concepts.
• Chapter 2, “Administering FICON Fabrics” allows you to set up and get started using FICON
quickly, if you are already familiar with FICON concepts and basic procedures.
• Chapter 3, “Configuring FICON CUP” provides basic conceptual information on FICON CUP and
instructions on how to set CUP up in your FICON environment.
• Chapter 4, “Administering FICON Extension Services” provides basic conceptual information on
emulation products and how to set them up in a FICON environment.
• Chapter 5, “Maintaining and Troubleshooting FICON” discusses maintaining your switch in a
FICON environment, provides symptoms, troubleshooting tips, and possible solutions to known
issues.
• Appendix A, “Platforms supporting FICON” lists Brocade switches and Backbones supported
for FICON for various IBM systems. Also listed are Brocade switch blades supported for FICON
on Backbone platforms
• Appendix B, “Basic Switch Configuration” provides basic steps and commands to quickly
configure a switch for fabric and possible FICON and cascaded FICON operation.
• Appendix C, “Address Binding Examples” provides examples and scripts with appropriate
commands for the following:
- “Sequential address binding”
- “Zero-Based to Port-Based Address Binding”
- “Unbinding Multiple Ports”