RE: Personal Communications w/5294 controller

Pat Barber Wrote:


>Does anybody know if Personal Communications 4.1 will work with a PC &
>twinax card attached to 5x94 controller ??????????????? In theory, it
>would appear that it could, but I was wondering if any of you folks has
>tried it ????????

Dear Pat,

Personal Communications uses APPC communication (LU 6.2) to communicate with 
the AS/400. The IBM 5394 and 5494 can definitely handle this type of 
communication without problem. About 8 years ago I was working at a company 
with 300 terminals and printers that were remote to a series of AS/400 hosts. 
We serviced these devices mostly with 5294's and only a couple of 5394's at the 
time. We were told then that APPC communications required a 5394 controller. I 
don't know whether this was a limitation of the 5294 control unit or the 
knowledge we had about 5294's inside the company.

/Paul
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Paul Tykodi, Technical Director                 E-mail: pault@praim.com
Praim Inc.                                           Tel: 603-431-0606
140 Congress St., #2                                Fax: 603-436-6432
Portsmouth, NH  03801-4019


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