Re: Death of SNA?

[Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Specifically, regarding the death of twin-ax, IBM is not planning to
de-support this.  It turns out that new regulations in Europe make many IBM
adapters out of compliance next year, including the current twin-ax
adapter.  IBM understands that there are many proprietary twin-ax devices
that customers have. (e.g.: point of sale)

Their plan is to let users go to twin-ax over Ethernet adapters.

In the event that a suitable adapter is not found, they may in fact come
out with their own new twin-ax adapter which conforms with the ridiculous
European regulations.  (This likely may not be cheap.)

Al

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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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Group Dekko Services, LLC
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Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com

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