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FICON

FICON (Fibre Connection) is the IBM proprietary name for the ANSI FC-SB-3 Single-Byte Command Code Sets-3 Mapping Protocol for Fibre Channel (FC) protocol. It is a FC layer 4 protocol used to map both IBM's antecedent (either ESCON or parallel Bus and Tag) channel-to-control-unit cabling infrastructure and protocol onto standard FC services and…

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Devices

EMCSymmetrixVMAXHewlett Packard EnterpriseXP Storage
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Z/ArchitectureSystem/360System/370MainframesZ/OS
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Overview

IBMANSIFibre ChannelProtocolESCON
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Protocol internals

Cyclic redundancy check
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FICON

Nodes47
Edges46
Triples61
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.042553
Components1

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related to Devices · 17
FICON → Disk, DMX, DS6000, DS8000Infinidat, EMC, Enterprise Storage Server, FlexLine V2Xf/V2X4f SVA, InfiniBoxStorageTek, Packard Enterprise, PowerMax, Shark, Symmetrix, Universal Storage Platform, Vantara, Virtual Storage PlatformIBM, VMAX, XP Storage
related to Usage · 17
FICON → Architecture, Both FICON, CKD/ECKD, ESCON, FCP, Fibre Channel, GDPS, However, IBM, IBM's System Storage DS8000, Mainframe-attached, OS, SCSI, Some, System/360, System/370, The
related to Protocol internals · 15
FICON → Command, Control, Data, Data IUs, Each FICON, FC-SB-3, Fibre Channel, FICON Information Units, Information, IUs, Link Control, Only, Status, Status IUs, They
related to Additional CRC · 9
FICON → As, CRC, FC, Fibre Channel CRC, FICON CRC, IU, IUs, The, This
related to Cables · 3
FICON → Copper Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel, Long

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channel fibre ibm control data mainframe escon protocol ius unit connection fc may fcp command one protocols single storage used

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
FICONrelated to Additional CRCThe0.60section
FICONrelated to Additional CRCIUs0.60section
FICONrelated to Additional CRCCRC0.60section
FICONrelated to Additional CRCIU0.60section
FICONrelated to Additional CRCThis0.60section
FICONrelated to Additional CRCFibre Channel CRC0.60section
FICONrelated to Additional CRCFC0.60section
FICONrelated to Additional CRCAs0.60section
FICONrelated to Additional CRCFICON CRC0.60section
FICONrelated to CablesFibre Channel0.60section
FICONrelated to CablesLong0.60section
FICONrelated to CablesCopper Fibre Channel0.60section

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