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Dell Brocade 5100 | Fabric OS v7.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 - Page 1
Brocade Fabric OS v7.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 December 15, 2011 Document History Document Title Brocade Fabric OS v7.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Summary of Changes Initial Release Fabric OS v7.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Publication Date December 15, 2011 Page 1 of 67
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document is for informational purposes only and does not set forth any warranty, expressed or implied, concerning any equipment, equipment feature, or service offered or to be offered by Brocade. Brocade http://www.brocade.com/support/oscd. Export of technical data contained in this document may
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...22 Brocade HBA/Adapter Compatibility ...23 D-Port...23 Encryption Behavior for the Brocade Encryption Switch (BES) and FS8-18 23 FCIP (FR4-18i, Brocade 7800 and FX8-24) ...25 FCoE/DCB/CEE (Brocade 8000 and FCOE10-24 26 FCR and Integrated Routing ...28 FICON...28 FL_Port (Loop) Support...28
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Mirroring ...29 Port Statistics ...29 Virtual Fabrics ...29 Zoning...29 Miscellaneous ...30 Defects ...31 Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1...31 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS
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: Brocade 6505 entry level 16G FC switch o Supports 12-24 16 Gbps FC ports o Ports are capable of operating at 2/4/8/16 Gbps FC for open systems o Supports D-port and Forward Error Correction (FEC) with 16G SFP+ o Supports Access Gateway mode o Supports Condor3 ASIC enabled VC level credit recovery
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mesh configuration using optical ICLs Support for ICL connectivity with up to eight DCX8510 chassis in core-edge topology This increased support delivers massive scalability, significantly reduces cabling complexity, and also makes more ports available for device connectivity. FOS v7.0.1 also adds
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Routing- This license allows any port in a DCX8510-8, DCX8510-4, Brocade 6510, DCX-4S, DCX, 5300, 5100, 7800, or Brocade Encryption Switch to be configured as an EX_Port or VEX_Port (on some platforms) supporting Fibre Channel Routing. This eliminates the need to add a dedicated router to a fabric
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to enable full encryption processing power on the BES or on all FS8-18 blades installed in a DCX/DCX-4S/DCX8510-8/DCX8510-4 chassis. DataFort Compatibility - This license is required on the Brocade Encryption Switch or DCX/DCX-4S/DCX85108/DCX8510-4 with FS8-18 blade(s) to read and decrypt NetApp
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the Fibre Channel Standards in a manner consistent with accepted engineering practices and procedures. In certain cases, Brocade might add proprietary supplemental functions to those specified in the standards. For a list of FC standards conformance, visit the following Brocade Web site: http://www
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of Service Prioritization and Tagging VLAN Classification by Protocol and Port Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Flow Control (Pause Frames) The following draft versions of the Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Standards are also supported on the Brocade
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DCX8510-8 - Bottom right of the port side Brocade DCX-4S, DCX8510-4 - Back, upper left under the power supply 3. World Wide Name (WWN) When the Virtual Fabric feature is enabled on a switch, each logical switch has a unique switch WWN. Use the wwn command to display the switch WWN. If you cannot use
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Installing This FOS Release Technical Support http://my.brocade.com under the ―Technical Documentation‖ section of the ―documentation that the issues addressed in this list upgraded to FOS v6.4.1a or later before non-disruptively upgrading to FOS v7.0.1 Upgrading ports configured as EX or VEX for
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with the firmwaredownload command. If there are multiple node EGs (encryption groups) in a fabric, please complete firmwaredownload on one node at a time before downloading on another node. The Brocade 8000 does not support non-disruptive hot code loads (HCL). Upgrading the Brocade 8000 to FOS
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supports, and adds support for the Brocade DCX Backbone (DCX8510-8/DCX) and Fiber Connectivity (FICON) capabilities. More details about Network Advisor's new enhancements can be found in the Network Advisor 11.1 Release Notes, Network Advisor 11.1 User Guide, and Network Advisor 11.1 Installation
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. For a list of the effective end-of-life dates for all versions of Fabric OS, visit the following Brocade Web site: http://www.brocade.com/support/end_of_life.jsp Supported Products and FOS Interoperability Brocade 2000-series switches Brocade 3200, 3800 Brocade 3000 Silkworm 3016, 3250, 3850
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to FCR running FOS v7.0.1 or later. FCR platforms supported include 5100, VA-40FC, 5300, 7800, DCX, DCX-4S, DCX8510-8, DCX8510-4, 6510. For higher FCR backbone scalability (refer to separate ―Brocade SAN Scalability Guidelines‖ documentation for details), please use 5300, DCX, DCX-4S, DCX8510
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Zoning Compatibility Note: Users are recommended to upgrade to the following versions of firmware when interoperating with a switch running FOS v7.0 or later in the same layer 2 fabric to overcome some of the zoning operations restrictions that otherwise exist: Main code level FOS
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circumstances, but must be approved by Brocade's Product Team. Up to 8 FR4-18i blades can be installed in a DCX if they are used only for FCIP without routing. Note: FR4-18i cannot coexist with FX8-24 in FOS v7.0 or later FR4-18i does not support EX-ports, FC FastWrite and WAN optimization features
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table below. DCX8510-8/DCX8510-4 Blade Support Matrix FC16-32, FC16-48 16G FC blades FC8-64 64 port 8Gbit port blade FC8-32E, FC8-48E of 4 blades of this type. FCoE/L2 CEE blade FCOE10-24 Not supported Table 2 Blade Support Matrix for DCX8510-8 and DCX8510-4 with FOS v7.0.1 Note: The iSCSI FC4
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configurations) FC10-6, FC816, FC8-32, FC 8-48, FC864 FR4-18i FS8-18, FX8-24, FCOE10-24 Port Blade Intelligent Blade Intelligent Blade 2 Power Supplies Not Supported Not Supported 2 Power Supplies 2 Power Supplies DCX: 2 or 4 Power Supplies DCX-4S: 2 Power Supplies Comments Distribute the Power
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installed 1When 2+2 power supply combination is used, the users are advised to configure the Fabric Watch setting for switch marginal state to be two power supplies. Users can use the CLI switchstatuspolicyset to configure this value if the current value is set to zero. In FOS v7.0.x, the default
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command. When using QoS in a fabric with 4G ports or switches, FOS v6.2.2 or later must be installed on all products in order to pass QoS info. E_Ports from the DCX to other switches must come up AFTER 6.2.2 is running on those switches. Access Gateway AG cascading is not supported on Brocade
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card reader.  Card reader already in use by default key.  Unable to complete TEP/TAP process as window for selecting card and entering password does not appear. Please refer to SafeNet Keysecure install documentation for setting up and initially configuring the SSKM key vaults. There are some
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is supported. The procedure for setting up the RKM Appliance with BES or a DCX/DCX-4S/DCX8510 with FS8-18 blades is located in the Encryption Admin Guide. Support for registering a 2nd RKM Appliance on BES/FS8-18 is blocked. If the RKM Appliances are clustered, then the virtual IP address hosted
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. FCIP (FR4-18i, Brocade 7800 and FX8-24) Any firmware activation will disrupt I/O traffic on FCIP links. Latency measurements supported on FCIP Tunnels: o 1GbE & 10GbE - 200ms round trip time and 1% loss. After inserting a 4G SFP in GE ports of an FX8-24 blade or 7800 switch, sometimes ―sfpshow
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Enhanced Ethernet Administrator's Guide. FOS v7.0 or later supports a new optimized model for provisioning FCoE with fewer configuration steps to enable FCoE on DCB ports. These changes do not allow the Brocade 8000 to retain FCoE configuration information following an upgrade to FOS v7.0 or
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logins. Ethernet switch services must be explicitly enabled using the command ―fosconfig -enable ethsw" before powering on an FCOE10-24 blade. Failure to do so will cause the blade to be faulted (fault 9). Users can enable ethsw after upgrading firmware without FC traffic interruption. The Brocade
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, and Brocade 6505. The FC8-48 and FC8-64 blade support attachment of loop devices. Virtual Fabrics must be enabled on the chassis and loop devices may only be attached to ports on a 48-port or 64-port blade assigned to a non-Default Logical Switch operating with the default 10bit addressing mode
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M-EOS platforms and a switch running FOS v7.0 or later is supported via FCR. Port Mirroring On the Brocade 5300, the port mirroring feature has a limitation where all port mirror resources must stay within the same ASIC port group. The resources are the configured mirror port, Source Device, and
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to disable or enable trunking on the switch). During non-disruptive firmware upgrades, E_Ports in R-RDY mode may cause some frame drops on the E-port links. For the configure command, in FOS v6.4, or later the default value that displays for Maximum Logins per switch is different than the value that
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Brocade 7800 when portcfgdefault was executed on VE port (with a circuit in test mode) Symptom: User Replacing a failed FX8-24 blade may result in one circuit on a crossport configured tunnel getting stuck "In Progress..." Symptom: A crossport circuit fails to complete initialization and the user
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and not stop them. Feature: FC Services Function: D-port Probability: Medium Found in Release: FOS7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000367436 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Fabric Watch email alerts use the default switch name instead of current switch name in the "Sent From" field. Symptom
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Symptom: After replacing an FC16-xx blade with an FC8-xxE blade, ports previously configured to fixed 10G speed will be reset to auto speed negotiation while ports previously configured to fixed 16G will be persistently disabled. Workaround: Manually correct the configured port speed and reenable
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: MSTP instance cost is not changing after configuring the spanning tree cost and changing the mstp mode Symptom: MSTP instances are not assigned proper costs when port-channel path-cost is changed. Workaround: User needs to unconfigure the port-channel path-cost. Feature: CEE-LAYER2 Function
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in either slot 7 or 8 of 8510-4 Symptom: User sees failure message when running portloopbacktest BLADE ID 0x60 in slot 7 reset, mode:5 condor3_fpl_lli_ns_status[3518]: slot 7 chip 0 asic port 24 has LOS peerSlot -1 (null) asicChip 0 asicPort 0 FAILED to set speed 16 G BLADE ID 0x60 in slot
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IP over FC with multi-frame sequences. Symptom: With IPFC configuration, run IPFC Broadcast frames with multi frames in sequence, observe switch fails over or hareboot after some run time. Feature: Field Escalation Function: Panic / OOM Probability: Low Found in Release: FOS6.4.0 Service
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configurations with Speed Tags, if LSAN Binding is added, binding is not being properly enforced. Symptom: If LSAN Binding is added to an FCR configuration with Speed setup. Feature: Field Escalation Function: FCR Probability: Low Found in Release: FOS6.2.2 Service stuck at G-Port. Workaround:
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but the default Extended Fabric modes without an Extended Fabric license present. On DCX8510 family CLI, the Extended Fabric configuration behaves as expected for licensed 10G ports (no Extended Fabric license is required for any extended distance modes). Feature: WebMgmt Function: Switch Admin
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Probability: Low Found in Release: FOS6.3.1 Service Request ID: 627097 Where Else Fixed: FOS6.4.2 b GA Defect ID: DEFECT000354348 Technical Severity: High Summary: Not receiving the RAS log Cx-5021 message for front port partial credit loss on an EX-Port Symptom: Customer will be unaware if
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set (which is an invalid configuration, involving an unlikely "loophole" to configure.) Workaround: remove zone files from switch and reboot Feature: Field Escalation Function: Fabric Services lost after route change. Workaround: Disable all ICL ports and then enable all ICL ports Feature
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with crossport circuit configuration in a chassis with PORT FENCING Probability: Low Found in Release: FOS7.0.0 Defect ID: DEFECT000368931 Technical Severity: High Summary: Deprecate FruReplace CLI command in FOS Symptom: Use of FruReplace command in the process of performing replacement
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Tape Read Channel Program can configured as speed auto negotiation, and there is only 1 port connected to the remote, after switch reboot, or slotpoweroff/slotpoweron, sometime this port cannot sync up. Portdisable/portenable cannot recover. When there are more than 1 links connected, this problem
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CEE port diagnostic tests Feature: Diagnostics Function: Other Probability: High Found in Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 451771 Where Else Fixed: FOS7.0.0 GA, FOS6.4.1 b Defect ID: DEFECT000335811 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Brocade 5450 switches crashed when latest version
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port speed configuration state if ports in the same group are in different logical switches. Symptom: If configdefault is executed in the default switch, portcfgoctetspeedcombo settings will get set to default on all logical switches. Feature: ConfigMgmt Function: Config Download Probability
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without a port toggle, the route is not set up, login sequence. Feature: Field Escalation Function: ASIC Driver Probability: Low Found in Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 567863 Defect ID: DEFECT000348516 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Switch Symptom: If user disables multiple
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a DCX 8510-8 with max LS creation and fully populated EX-Ports after a long period of time with I/O running Symptom: pdmd end and Brocade switch could not form a dynamic LAG with a 3rd party switch. Feature: CEE-LAYER2 Function: LACP Probability: Medium Found in Release: FOS6.3.1_dcb Service
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-18i has optical SFP in GigE port, but switchshow displayed it as "Copper". There is no other functional impact. Workaround: Run the portcfgdefault CLI on the GE ports Feature: Legacy FCIP (7500/FR4-18i) Function: FCIP CLI Probability: High Found in Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 629097
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impacts FCOE switches Feature: Field Escalation Function: ASIC Driver Probability: Low Found in Release: FOS6.3.2 Where Else Fixed: FOS6.4.2 b GA Defect ID: DEFECT000364788 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Unreliable speed negotiation may be encountered when BR5470 Cu ports are connected
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Function: Management Embedded Probability: Low Found in Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 665233 Defect ID: DEFECT000368621 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: 8G switches running FOS 7.0.0 or above with locked G-port configuration and set to auto negotiate may negotiate to 4G instead of
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sends frame with invalid MAC address on Brocade 300E, 5100, 6510 and 7800 Symptom: Switch Ethernet port sometimes sends frames with invalid Ethernet MAC address. There is no functional impact due to TCP/IP retransmit frame successfully; However, if there is security software monitor each frame
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Connectivity between devices lost after route change. Workaround: Disable all ICL ports and then enable all ICL ports. Feature: UNDETERMINED blades. Symptom: Unable create more than three tunnels with crossport circuit configuration in a chassis with multiple FX8-24 blades. Feature: FCIP
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. Feature: FCIP Function: FCP TCP/IP Stack Probability: Low Found in Release: FOS7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000368931 Technical Severity: High Summary: Deprecate FruReplace CLI command in FOS Symptom: Use of FruReplace command in the process of performing replacement of a defective WWN card will
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In Extended Fabric sub tab shows the port speed as 0 for ports configured as N16. Symptom: Configured N16 port speed is not displayed as N16 in the port speed column in Extended Fabric sub tab for 16G platforms. Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP Function: Other Probability: Medium Found in Release
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Technical Severity: High Summary: Loop attached device loses secondary disk path after port disable/enable Symptom: Secondary paths will not appear in the output from disk query commands. Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: Other Probability: Medium Found in Release: FOS7.0.0 Defect ID
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Feature: FC Services Function: D-port Probability: Medium Found in Release: FOS7.0.0 Defect ID: DEFECT000355830 Technical Severity: High Summary: Fabric Watch and Port Fencing Threshold settings should not apply to D-Ports. Symptom: D-Ports become fenced during d-port testing. Feature
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domain ID. Symptom: Hosts lost access to storage after Brocade 300 ISL ports running at 8G Symptom: Customer may notice excessive port errors (enc out) on Brocade 300 ISL ports in a configuration consisting of a mix of 4G user ports interconnected via 8G ISLs. Feature: 4G Platform Services
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a Trackchanges setting of 1,1, Service Request ID: 641021 Defect ID: DEFECT000359493 Technical Severity: High Summary: If FX8-24 blades are swapped, the Inband Mgmt configuration is not properly loaded onto the new blade. Symptom: Inband Mgmt is not functioning after FX8-24 blade is replaced
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User will be unable to create Top Talkers in Ingress mode Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP Function: Other Probability: High Found in Release: FOS7.0.0 Defect ID: DEFECT000351796 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Duplicate E_Port SCN from Port Feature: FC Services Function: Other
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should direct user to Interoperability tab to change switch to Brocade Native Fabric Mode Symptom: When upgrading a switch in IM2/IM3 to v7.0 via WebTools, the failure message references the interopmode command, but does not provide WebTools instructions. Feature: FC Services Function: Other
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Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Need more detailed error message for blocking firmware upgrade from FOS 6.4.0c to FOS 7.0 due to a deprecated feature. Symptom: Firmware upgrade from v6.4 to v7.0 is blocked, and user does not get sufficient information from the error message. Feature: FABRIC
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on FCoE ports prior to upgrading to v7.0, NPIV cannot be enabled on those FCoE ports. Feature: Field Escalation Function: FCoE Probability: Low Found in Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 639985 Defect ID: DEFECT000360186 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Brocade Encryption Engine
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Symptom: Configured CS_CTL values Documentation Defect: CEE command reference guide missing operands in "show runningconfig" Symptom: CEE command reference guide missing operands in "show running-config" Feature: Tech Pubs Function: Guides Probability: Medium Found in Release: FOS7.0.0 Service
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6/30. Solution is effective upon upgrade, hafailover or re-init of blade. 3. 5100 experience CRC error with 3rd party tape device. 4. FC10-6 in DCX detects backend port with stuck VC after link level error (CDR-5021) Feature: FC10-6 Platform Services Function: ASIC Driver Probability: Low Found
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Symptom: After upgrade fabric switch attached to AG switch with QoS enabled from 6.2.x to 6.3.x, Nport stuck in G-Port. Disable QoS on fabric switch port, port came up fine. Feature: Field Escalation Function: Access Gateway Probability: Low Found in Release: FOS6.3.1 Service Request ID
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but the default Extended Fabric modes without an Extended Fabric license present. On DCX8510 family CLI, the Extended Fabric configuration behaves as expected for licensed 10G ports (no Extended Fabric license is required for any extended distance modes). Feature: WebMgmt Function: Switch Admin
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Summary: Enhancement to BE credit loss detection and recovery Symptom: When BE credit is lost, customer needs to reseat blade to recover. This release added options to generate link reset, port re-init, and blade fault depends on user configuration upon defect BE credit lose. Refer to bottleneck
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: Component (ms) dropping HA data update during logical switch delete and moving of ports Symptom: FICON Database out of Sync between CP's HA Channel aborts I/O after presenting pending Attention status Symptom: Channel aborts I/O, Mainframe IOS000 messages indicating that there was a channel