HP XP P9500 Operation Guide

Table 6 Operating environment required for FICON/zHPF
SpecificationItems
FICON Express
FICON Express2
FICON Express4
FICON Express8 (not supported by z9)
z9, z10, zEnterpriseCPU
Native FICONz900
FICON Express
FICON Expressz990
Native FICONG5/G6
z800, zSeries
OS/390 Rev. 2.6 and later releasedOperating system
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, zEnterprise
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 and later
2105-F20 and later
2107
Controller emulation type
High Performance FICON (HPF)Host-based software
FICON and FICON/zHPF protocol sequence
Figure 2 (page 11) and Figure 3 (page 12) show the basic read/write sequence of FICON and
zHPF Protocols. For details, see the ANSI standard document Fibre Channel Single-Byte Command
Code Sets Mapping Protocol – 4.
Figure 2 FICON protocol read/write sequence
Attaching FICON/zHPF CHAs 11

HP XP P9500 Specifications

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Brand	HP
Model	XP P9500
Category	Software
Language	English