RE: SNA based commands

["Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can remove all of the SAVRST commands by removing ObjectConnect -
5722SS1 Opt. 22 on V5R3.  But you can also get rid of the hardware used
for native SNA support and continue to use these commands using AnyNet.
(SNA over TCPIP) 

Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
System i Administrator
GuideOne Mutual Insurance Company


-----Original Message-----
From: ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:44 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: SNA based commands


We are mainly using SNA communications for 2 sets of functions:


 - One is our connection between 2 servers that transports our Mimix
replication between the 2 servers.  This can be reconfigured as TCP/IP
within the Mimix application.

-  The second set of functions is the set of commands used by our
programmers to accomplish moving objects between systems... things like
SNDNETF, SAVRSTOBJ, and commands of that nature.  I read a good document
at that point that described which commands used SNA functionality as
their mode of communication.  Has anyone seen such a document?


We added a 2849 ethernet adapter to each of our last set of systems in
order to still maintain native SNA connectivity, but at this point we
would rather just try to use TCP/IP based communications for what we are
doing (we have no specific reason to keep things SNA).

Using Enterprise Extender is an option, of course, and we may find out
in the end that it's necessary to set this up for some portion of
functionality, but would be more interested in avoiding the SNA based
functions wherever possible.  IBM's not necessarily removing it, but we
get the feeling that we should be moving away from it wherever possible.


 

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SNA is not a "thing" on the system. It's a structure that the entire
commuications system is based on. There are many commands related to
communications and that will take you down a VERY long road.

Which SNA thing are you moving away from ? SDLC is probably the most
common thing, but we could be talking about a LOT of different protocols
supported by SNA. You are talking about a framework that is woven
through the entire OS. Pulling out SNA is not a minor issue.

I'm not really sure that IBM can do away with the SNA framework
entirely.


What are you moving away from ?

How much communications do you have ?

A little reading on the subject:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245291.html



ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> We are starting to prepare for getting rid of the SNA oriented items 
> we
are
> currently using (we will move off them later this year).  I seem to 
> remember a good article or listing I saw somewhere (last year?) that 
> gave
a
> breakdown of the commands and features that were based on SNA 
> communications.  Does anyone have such a link or document?
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