Appendix A Platforms Supporting Ficon; Supported Platforms With End Of Support - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

Platforms supporting FICON
This appendix provides the following support details on the following:
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Due to the nature of environments where mainframes are used, product qualification for FICON is
more rigorous than with other products. As a result, not all product combinations and versions of
Fabric OS are qualified for FICON.

Supported platforms with end of support

All Brocade products in
dates vary for each product, and your service provider may have end-of-support dates that differ
from Brocade dates. Contact your service provider for details.
Firmware listed in the following table is the final version supported and the recommended target
path
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Supported platforms with end of support announcements
.
Brocade 4900
Fabric OS
z900 & z800 Driver 3GF v6.2.0e
z990 & z890 Driver 55K v6.2.0e
z9 EC & z9 BC Driver v6.2.0e
67L
z10 EC & z10 BC Driver v6.2.0e
76D & 79F
z10 BC Driver 76D v6.2.0e
z196 Driver 86E or 93G Not
supported
z114 Driver 93G Not
supported
EC12 at driver 12K Not
supported
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Brocade products with end of support announcements supported for FICON for different IBM
systems and drivers (Table
Brocade products currently supported for FICON for different IBM systems and drivers
on page 82).
Brocade blades supported for FICON in various Brocade Switch and Data Center Backbone
products (Table 10 on page 82).
Table 8
Brocade 5000
Fabric OS
v6.2.0e
v6.2.0e
v6.2.0e
v6.2.0e
v6.2.0e
Not
supported
Not
supported
Not
supported
8).
have end of support announcements. However, end-of-support
Brocade 6140 Brocade i10K
Fabric OS Fabric OS
v9.9.9 v9.9.8
v9.9.9 v9.9.8
v9.9.9 v9.9.8
v9.9.9 v9.9.8
v9.9.9 v9.9.8
v9.9.9 v9.9.8
v9.9.9 v9.9.8
Not Not
supported supported
Brocade 7500 Brocade 48000
Fabric OS Fabric OS
v6.4.2a v6.4.2a
v6.4.2a v6.4.2a
v6.4.2a v6.4.2a
v6.4.2a v6.4.2a
v6.4.2a v6.4.2a
v6.4.2a v6.4.2a
v6.4.2a v6.4.2a
v6.4.2a v6.4.2a
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Brocade 5100
Fabric OS
v7.0.0d
v7.0.0d
v7.0.0d
v7.0.0d
v7.0.0d
v7.0.0d
v7.0.0d
v7.0.0d
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