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Chapter 10. Attaching to an IBM S/390 or IBM eServer zSeries
host
This chapter describes the host system requirements to attach the IBM S/390 or
zSeries host system to the storage unit with either an ESCON
®
adapter or a FICON
adapter.
Migrating from a FICON bridge to a native FICON attachment
This section shows how to migrate from a FICON bridge to a native FICON
attachment.
Migrating from a FICON bridge to a native FICON attachment on
zSeries hosts: FICON bridge overview
The FICON bridge is a feature card of the ESCON Director 9032 Model 5. The
FICON bridge supports an external FICON attachment and connects internally to a
maximum of eight ESCON links. The volume on these ESCON links is multiplexed
on the FICON link. You can perform the conversion between ESCON and FICON
on the FICON bridge.
Migrating from a FICON bridge to a native FICON attachment on
zSeries hosts: FICON bridge configuration
This section provides a FICON bridge example.
Figure 43 on page 90 shows an example of how to configure a FICON bridge. It
also shows an S/390 or zSeries host with two FICON channels attached to two
FICON bridges. You can attach the storage unit through the channel-path group to
four ESCON links.
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