FICON

E267719

IBM interface standard computer input/output interface standard

FICON is IBM’s high-speed, Fibre Channel–based input/output interface standard used primarily to connect mainframe computers to storage and peripheral devices.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
FICON canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	IBM interface standard ⓘ computer input/output interface standard ⓘ
backwardCompatibleWith	some ESCON environments via gateways ⓘ
basedOn	Fibre Channel ⓘ
category	mainframe I/O channel technology ⓘ
compatibleWith	IBM storage systems ⓘ surface form: IBM DS8000 storage systems IBM System z ⓘ surface form: IBM System z mainframes IBM mainframe ⓘ surface form: IBM Z mainframes IBM tape libraries ⓘ
connects	control units ⓘ disk storage subsystems ⓘ mainframe channel subsystem ⓘ tape subsystems ⓘ
dataRateType	multi-gigabit per second ⓘ
developedBy	IBM ⓘ
domain	mainframe computing ⓘ
fullName	FTTH ⓘ surface form: Fibre Connection
hasVersion	FC-SB ⓘ surface form: FC-SB-2 FC-SB-3 ⓘ FC-SB ⓘ surface form: FC-SB-4 FC-SB-5 ⓘ FC-SB ⓘ surface form: FC-SB-6
introducedInDecade	1990s ⓘ
optimizedFor	high-throughput I/O ⓘ low-latency I/O ⓘ
relatedTo	ESCON ⓘ Fibre Channel ⓘ IBM System z ⓘ surface form: IBM Z
replaces	ESCON ⓘ
standardFamily	FC-SB ⓘ
standardizedBy	ANSI ⓘ
supports	high-speed input/output ⓘ
supportsEnvironment	z/OS ⓘ z/TPF ⓘ z/VM ⓘ z/VSE ⓘ
supportsFeature	channel extension over distance ⓘ z/OS mainframe I/O operations ⓘ
supportsTopology	point-to-point ⓘ switched fabric ⓘ
transportLayer	Fibre Channel ⓘ surface form: Fibre Channel protocol
usedBy	financial institutions ⓘ government data centers ⓘ large enterprises ⓘ
usedFor	connecting mainframe computers to peripheral devices ⓘ connecting mainframe computers to storage devices ⓘ
usedIn	enterprise data centers ⓘ mission-critical transaction processing ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: FICON
Description of subject: FICON is IBM’s high-speed, Fibre Channel–based input/output interface standard used primarily to connect mainframe computers to storage and peripheral devices.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

FC → supportsProtocol → FICON ⓘ

subject surface form: Fibre Channel