RE: Death of SNA?

It's not dead. While support of direct SNA will be dropped; you could still use 
SNA applications via the yet to be released "Enterprise Extender for iSeries" 
product.

>From what I've read the Enterprise Extender product has been popular on the 
>mainframe side for a while now, and will be ported to the iSeries for those 
>unable to modify/replace their SNA applications.

"The second option to consider for migrating from an SNA to a TCP/IP based 
infrastructure is Enterprise Extender technology. Enterprise Extender is a 
protocol that allows SNA application data to be transported across a TCP/IP 
network, without changing the existing SNA applications. Enterprise Extender is 
also commonly referred to as High Performance Routing over Internet Protocol 
(HPR over IP) support."

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/support/planning/v5r3suggested_alternatives.html


HTH, 

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

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> Subject: Death of SNA?
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> 
> http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc/.6b24cce2
> 
> Claims that the release after V5R3 will be the last to support SNA.
> 
> Confirmation from IBM:
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/support/planning/
futuresftwr.html

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/support/planning/nav.html

Items affected:
SNDNETF
SNDNETMSG
SNDNETSPLF
etc.

Rob Berendt
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