RE: Death of SNA?

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Anyone want to guess what IBM will charge to migrate a package like 
Enterprise Extender off of the mainframe Z-OS on to i5/OS?
Anyone want to try to justify this price to their management, versus what 
little it will cost to migrate off of SNA on to ethernet?

Rob Berendt
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6928N 400E
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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
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Death of SNA?
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> http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc/.6b24cce2
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> 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
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com

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