Re: Changing protocols

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello Frank,

You wrote:
>Question, We are in the process of moving from an SNA environment to an IP. 
>Do we lose anything is doing this, in terms of the AS/400?

Yes!  You lose the ability to accurately determine why a communications link 
failed.  SNA and APPC give decent sense codes which state exactly what the 
problem is.  TCP/IP simply vomits and gives up.

Other than that you lose nothing**.  You just need to learn different 
methods for accomplishing the same thing.  For example:

Replace SNDNETF with FTP
Replace SNDNETSPLF with SNDTCPSPLF
Replace STRPASTHR with TELNET
Replace SNDNETMSG with SNDNWSMSG???

Besides, if you buy decent routers you can run both TCP and SNA on the same 
network.

** Well you do lose SAVRSTOBJ, SAVRSTLIB, and possibly SBMNETJOB because 
they require an APPC connection but you could fake that with AnyNet if your 
routers choke on SNA datastreams.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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