That's strange. I thought the FCP and FICON adapters were one in the same with different microcode. The IOCDS setting of TYPE=FCP (?) was what caused the different microcode to be loaded. There are different FICON cards though aren't there? FICON Express etc. I wonder if this was the difference.
-----Original Message----- One other facet to this discussion....cost On the z/890, the FICON adapters were $25K each. The FCP adapters were $25K each. Then, you need the adapters on the storage unit. We went to an IBM DS6800. The Business Partner was somewhat pushing the FCP adapters for our growing Linux workload. The DS6800 would be LPARed into a FICON attached side for CKD data, and a FCP side for scsi attached access. I took one look at the cost and couldn't justify, at this time, FCP. We can always add it in the future. And I expect when we replace the z/890, FCP will be just one of those "standard" things. Yep, would still be optional, but everyone orders it.
