Specifications

Firmware Summary
B-7
Firmware Summary
FICON Management
Server (FMS) PFE key
install and enable
behavior
FMS is auto-enabled upon PFE
installation. Management style
automatically changes to
FICON.
When PFE is installed, the user
must explicitly enable FMS.
Management style does not
automatically change to FICON.
FMS PFE key not supported.
Saving a user-defined
PDCM array through
EFCM
Saving a user-defined PDCM
array through EFCM supported.
Cannot save a user-defined
PDCM array through EFCM.
FICON management style (with
associated PDCM array) not
supported.
Saving a PDCM array
after reset (single CTP
card)
No limitation. When a
single-CTP card director is reset,
the PDCM array is saved.
When Active = Saved is not set
and a single-CTP card Intrepid
10000 Director is reset, the
PDCM array is not saved. This
does not apply to a redundant
CTP card configuration.
FICON management style (with
associated PDCM array) not
supported.
Full volatility support Full volatility supported through
PFE key.
Full volatility always supported
because the Intrepid 10000
Director does not persistently
store data frame contents on any
FRU.
Full volatility not supported.
Port configuration
behavior as a function
of port module type
(directors)
Configuration set based on last
inserted port card type (FPM,
UPM, or XPM). If a new port card
is different in type from the last
inserted card, then all port-level
parameters for the new card are
reset to default. Parameters
include port type, transmission
speed, BB_Credit, block or
unblock, preferred path, allow or
prohibit, and port swap settings.
Configuration set independent of
port card type, except
transmission speed and
BB_Credit are configured and
stored independently for 2.1250
and 10.2000 Gbps ports (user
specifies port number and type).
Port-level parameters are not
reset to default when a new port
card is inserted.
Port configuration behavior as a
function of port module type not
applicable.
Display of Fibre
Channel link speed
Fibre Channel link speed always
displayed, regardless of switch
state.
Fibre Channel link speed not
displayed when Intrepid 10000
Director is disabled.
Configured link speed displayed
at Element Manager application
main window and actual link
speed displayed at Port
Configuration dialog box,
regardless of switch state.
Port speed
configuration
Ports are automatically set
offline or offline and not required
to be blocked to set transmission
speed.
Ports required to be blocked
(offline) to set transmission
speed.
Ports are not required to be set
offline to set transmission speed.
Table B-3 E/OSc versus E/OSn and E/OSi - Management-Related Differences (Continued)
Feature E/OSc 8.0 E/OSn 6.0 E/OSi 4.6