On Tuesday, 02/12/2008 at 11:56 EST, Tom Duerbusch 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> So, it seems, that if I have the resources available, I could define one 
or 
> more ports on the z/890 to be FCP, tell the DS6800 that these ports are 
FCP, 
> dedicate a four pack of drives for SAN, and now I have a small "sand 
box" to 
> play with.
> 
> Is any of that, true?

All FICON cards support both FC (FICON) and FCP (Fibre Channel Protocol 
for your SAN).  You change it by specifying TYPE=FC or TYPE=FCP on the 
chpid definition in the IODF.  (There is one feature that also supports 
TYPE=FCV for an ESCON connection.)

I got this information from z890 Installation Manual for Physical 
Planning, in the library section of ResourceLink.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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