Re: IBM support for SNADS

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A very large portion of financial institutions and the Federal 
Government still use SNA.  It's still the most secure and reliable 
network out there, albeit somewhat more difficult to set up and maintain 
than TCP/IP.( Ahhh, not I'm thinking now of all those wonderful days 
getting the NCP to compile and tested on the test network before moving 
it over to the production network and taking down 1000s of devices 
because I missed a semicolon somewhere.....)      I doubt IBM is going 
to sunset it anytime soon, nor have I heard any rumblings to that 
effect, disclosed or otherwise.  That said, I also doubt you will see 
much in the way of enhancements coming out for it either.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 12/20/2010 10:35 PM, CRPence wrote:
> On 12/20/10 11:52 AM, Paul Nelson wrote:
> > >  I'm having a senior moment here. Has IBM announced a
> > >  date or OS release where SNADS goes away?
> > >
>     I do not recall any such announcement for EOS [End of Support] or
> Withdrawn date by the time v7r1 was in development.  That said...
>
>     The SNA/DS is part of the OS, supporting a variety of OS features
> that depend on those Distribution Services being available.  I do not
> see the SNA/DS disappearing, at least not to be eliminated in a manner
> such that one would be left wondering if\when its demise was or would be
> announced.  Even OV/400 run-time still exists in the OS; presumably
> functional [I even made a fix for a customer-reported problem, issued as
> late as v5r4].  If\until in some release the various features dependent
> on or implementing SNA/DS such as SNDNETF, SBMNETJOB, WRKNETF, RCVNETF,
> WRKDSTQ, CM1\RJE et al. start logging some diagnostic message about a
> future loss of function, then I would not be very concerned about lack
> of the function or its support.
>
> Regards, Chuck