Re: Forklift upgrade effect on communications?

[mhshaw@xxxxxxx]

Rob,

I have to agree with your assessment of SNA, it's not worth a whole bunch of 
time and effort to learn.  Even IBM has drawn the line in the sand to a small 
degree.  If you choose 1 GB Ethernet cards in a configuration, traditional 
SNA is not supported at those speeds.  They force you into doing SNA over 
TCP/IP via ANYNET.....

Regards,

Mike Shaw

> First and foremost the backup and recovery guide actually has a checklist 
> for doing exactly what you want to do.  I don't mean the checklist for a 
> complete restore.  I mean the one for moving to a new system.  Follow it 
> very carefully.
> 
> In theory you should be able to complete the restore, do a WRKHDWRSC *CMN 
> and a WRKLIND and match up the new resource names.  However, if you are 
> using some sort of EDI package that regen's the line on a regular basis 
> you might have to step through their menu's and change the resource names 
> there also.
> 
> As far as bi-sync and SNA go, I wouldn't waste your time trying to learn 
> them.  They're good for what they do, but the world is moving on.  You 
> should be able to support the existing by limping along.  If time were 
> unlimited, I would say, sure learn it.  However your time would be better 
> served by learning something else.  Your company would probably be better 
> served by just calling your EDI software vendor, or IBM on your support 
> contract, if some existing process blows up.
> 
> Now I expect the SNA fans to come screaming.  And if you still insist on 
> learning, then perhaps they can be of assistance.
> 
> Rob Berendt
> -- 
> "All creatures will make merry... under pain of death."
> -Ming the Merciless (Flash Gordon)
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> All,
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> We're getting ready to replace our current 830 with a new 810.
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> Planning on a save/restore to new system.  We'll be keeping the system 
> name
> the same but of course will have a new serial number.  We do a 
> considerable
> amount of dial-up comms using bi-sync and SNA protocols.  Is there 
> anything
> to be concerned about as far as communions, system directory, and/or
> anything else?
> 
> As an aside, I'm new here and one thing I'm lacking is experience with
> bi-sync and SNA comms.  My last position was new to the 400 so we were 
> using
> TCP/IP for just about everything.  Can anybody recommend books, links, ect
> to help get me up to speed?
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> Thanks,
> Charles Wilt
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