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Administering FICON Extension Services

Platforms supporting FICON extension over IP

FICON extension over IP is supported between Brocade 7800 extension switches and FX8-24
blades.
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FICON emulation overview

FICON emulation supports FICON traffic over IP WANs using FCIP as the underlying protocol. FICON
emulation can be extended to support performance enhancements for specific applications
through use of the following licensed features:
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The 8 Gbps platforms (Brocade 7800 or FX8-24) use the following licenses:
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FICON Administrator's Guide
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Platforms supporting FICON extension over IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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FICON emulation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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FCIP configuration requirements for FICON extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
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Configuration requirements for switches and Backbones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
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Configuring FICON emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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Modifying FICON emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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Displaying FICON emulation performance statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
The Brocade 7800 switch has 16 physical Fibre Channel ports and six physical GbE ports.
The FX8-24 blade has 12 physical Fibre Channel ports, 10 GbE ports, and two physical 10GbE
ports.
IBM z/OS Global Mirror (formerly eXtended Remote Copy or XRC)
FICON Tape Emulation (tape read and write pipelining)
Advanced FICON Acceleration (FTR_AFA)
Allows interoperability for the following features and products:
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Prizm FICON to ESCON converter and ESBT Bus/Tag Interface Module for Prizm from
Optica Technologies, Inc. These products allow emulation and extended distance support
for bus and tag tapes and printers, such as 3203, 3211, 3800, 3900, 4248, and
intelligent printer data stream (IPDS) models.
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Write and read tape pipelining
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Teradata emulation
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IBM z/OS Global Mirror emulation.
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