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The pop-up menu displays as shown in Figure 2-289. Figure 2-289 Matrix Place the cursor in the matrix and left click to change the state. An “X” indicates that communication between these two ports is prohibited. Even if you do not intend to prohibit any connections, you should at least set Active=Saved. 2.26.14 Enabling binding features Binding is necessary for two-byte addressing. The only time binding should be set in a non-cascaded environment is when binding is being used for security purposes (which is very rare for mainframe environments). Only Fabric Binding is required for two-byte addressing, but you can choose other binding methods. Fabric Binding is the most common method of binding for FICON. It is much easier to set up the binding features after all connections are made so that all WWNs that have to be added to binding tables have been discovered. When enabled, changing the method of binding is an offline function. 642 IBM System Storage: Implementing an IBM SAN
