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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 11:43:00 EST
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- From: "Gilbert, Howard" <gilbert@CISPO1.CIS.YALE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Continue APPC-L List?
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- Yale University C&IS has developed a C language version of the CPIC
- subroutines which run over
- any generic byte stream protocol. In particular, it runs over named pipes
- and over TCP sockets.
- There are two objectives:
- 1) Combined with a three page TP which repeats to a remote server
- everything done to it by
- a remote client, this provides a gateway between real SNA LU 6.2 and
- APPC-over-TCP so
- that APPC transactions can use the internet. In particular, it links
- two remote university CICS
- mainframe systems using the NSF network.
- 2) A non-SNA host (a DOS or Windows named pipes client, or a real UNIX
- TCP/IP client or
- server) can gain indirectly communicate with a SNA client or server
- through a gateway
- (an RS/6000 or OS/2 machine with real SNA).
-
- Another location used some CPIC extensions we provided so that an LU 6.2
- mainframe client
- could access a TCP server (in particular using Z39.50 protocol).
-
- APPC is carried over a byte stream by inventing a record structure (length
- field followed by data)
- and inserting control information between records (Confirm, Change of
- Direction, Deallocate). The
- gateway operates at the APPC verb layer. There are no Request Units or SNA
- headers in the
- byte stream. The middle TP can be dumb or it can provide value added
- processing (translating
- EBCDIC to ASCII, well someone has to do it and the application programmers
- should not have
- to worry).
-
- We are about to being work on a project which will use Generic APPC (over
- all protocols) to develop
- a distributed print manager. APPC has the advantage that one protocol can
- handle file transfer
- and control operations (query, cancel, hold, release).
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-
- I, too, would like to know who's doing what with APPC. Is anyone
- adopting or migrating to LU6.2 from some other protocol (i.e. TCP/IP)?
- Is anyone rejecting or migrating from LU6.2?
-
- Tom Thomas
-