beautypg.com

About this document, Supported hardware and software, Additional ficon resources – Brocade FICON Administrator’s Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual

Page 11: What’s new in this document

background image

About This Document

Supported hardware and software.................................................................................... 9

Additional FICON resources............................................................................................. 9

What’s new in this document............................................................................................ 9

Supported hardware and software

Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by Brocade
Communications Systems, Inc. for Fabric OS v7.3.0 documenting all possible configurations and
scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.

For a complete list of platforms supported by FICON and Fabric OS v7.3.0, refer to

Platforms

supporting FICON

on page 99 Platforms supporting FICON.

In cases where procedures or parts of procedures do not apply to all Brocade hardware platforms, this
guide identifies which platforms are supported.

Additional FICON resources

In addition to Brocade product resources listed under "Brocade Resources" in this Preface, a dedicated
page for mainframe resources is located at

Mainframe and FICON Solutions

.

What’s new in this document

The following information was added or changed in this document:

Added information on Brocade 7840 extension switch to various parts of Administering FICON
Extension Services
and information on the FC16-64 blade to

Supported Brocade blades

on page

101.

Created

FCR and FICON cascading

on page 42 in Administering FICON Fabrics.

Created

Disabling and enabling ports - persistent states

on page 46 in Administering FICON

Fabrics.

Created

Meeting high-integrity fabric requirements

on page 33 in Administering FICON Fabrics.

Created

Extended fabric configurations

on page 17 in Introducing FICON.

Added step to configure High-Integrity Fabric Mode in

Configuring cascaded FICON

on page 41.

Added

Resetting FMS mode

on page 58.

Added notes in various locations, such as in

Configuring FICON CUP

on page 55 and

FMS mode

and FICON CUP

on page 56, that High-Integrity Fabric mode must be configured to enable FMS

mode.

Added definition of IPL file in

FICON concepts

on page 13.

FICON Administrator's Guide

9

53-1003144-01