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Connectivity.............................................................................................................................5
Attaching FICON/zHPF CHAs ..................................................................................................9
Hardware specifications......................................................................................................12
FICON CHAs....................................................................................................................12
Logical paths.....................................................................................................................12
Supported topologies.........................................................................................................14
Point-to-point topology...................................................................................................14
Cascaded FICON topology............................................................................................16
Mainframe configuration.........................................................................................................21
Storage subsystem IDs .......................................................................................................21
Mainframe operations.............................................................................................................28
Initializing the LVIs.............................................................................................................28
Device operations: ICKDSF..................................................................................................29
4 Linux operations.......................................................................................33
FCP support .....................................................................................................................34
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