On Tuesday, 07/18/2006 at 11:26 ZW3, cbodra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you want to say "point to point". If I understood correctly, I can connect > FICON directly to SUN Storage, but not thru Brocade switch. > Please clarify for my, since this is very confuse to me.
FICON and Fibre Channel (FC) are different things. FICON cannot attach to SUN Storage because FICON is for CTC and control units with FICON adapters. (I don't think your SUN box has FICON.) You cannot connect FICON to a Brocade 3850, because the 3850 is FC only. FICON is only in the Brocade 12000, 24000 and 3900. At least, that's what I get from Brocade's web site. For point-to-point connections, the other end must have FICON (not FC!) adapters. Even when you go through a switch, it is FICON from the mainframe to the switch, and FICON again from the switch to the device. The device must have a FICON adapter. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
