Brocade FICON Administrator’s Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 12)

• Added notes wherever configupload command mentioned that it backs up Fabric OS feature and
switch configuration, but not FMS and FICON-specific configuration.
• Added notes wherever enabling FMS mode is described that all high-integrity fabric attributes
must be configured and HIF mode enabled to enable FMS mode.
• Changed Moving ports to a logical switch section to Disabling and enabling ports - persistent
states on page 46 and added details comparing port persistent enable and disable states with
interactions of ASM Mode setting, IPL state, and use of portdisable and portenable commands.
• Added note in Upgrade considerations on page 59 that upgrading the Fabric OS v7.3.0 and
later from v7.2.1 and earlier requires high-integrity fabric attributes configured and HIF mode
enabled.
• Added note under "Routing policies" bullet in Fabric OS support for FICON on page 11 that
System z FICON does not support exchange-based routing.
• Added note under "Insistent Domain ID (IDID)" bullet that IDID is the recommended best practice
for single-byte addressing.
• Added Extended fabric configurations on page 17.
• Added sentence to Firmware download disruption on page 77 about FCIP Hot Code Load
feature on Brocade 7840 switch.
• Added Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite on page 87.
• In Basic Switch Configuration, changed step to enable port-based routing policy to device-based
routing policy.
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