FICON/zHPF operating environment
The following table lists the operating environment required for FICON/zHPF. For more information
about FICON/zHPF operating environments, including supported hosts and operating environments,
see the IBM Redbooks.
Table 6 Operating environment required for FICON/zHPF
Items
CPU
Operating system
Controller
emulation type
Host-based
software
FICON and FICON/zHPF protocol sequence
Figure 2
and
Figure 3
see the ANSI standard document Fibre Channel Single-Byte Command Code Sets Mapping Protocol
4.
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FICON/zHPF and ESCON host attachment
z9, z10
z900
z990
G5/G6
z800, zSeries
OS/390 Rev. 2.6 and later released
For FICON: Z-OS R1.V1 and later released
For FICON/zHPF:
z/OS V1.7 with the IBM Lifecycle Extension for z/OS V1.7 (5637-A01)
z/OS V1.8, V1.9 with PTFs
z10
VM/ESA 2.4.0
VM/ESA 2.3.0 with Authorized Problem Analysis Report (APAR)
VSE/ESA 2.3 with APAR
z/VM Version 3 Release 1
2105-F20 or later
2107
High Performance FICON (HPF)
show the basic read/write sequence of FICON and zHPF Protocols. For details,
Specification
FICON Express
FICON Express2
FICON Express4
Native FICON
FICON Express
FICON Express
Native FICON