IBM BC-201 - Manuals

Overview of IBM Networking DLSw+ BC-206 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 IP Multicast Multicast service avoids duplication and excessive bandwidth of broadcast traffic because it replicates and propagates messages to its multicast members only as necessary. It re...

Overview of IBM Networking DLSw+ BC-207 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 This section contains information on the following topics related to DLSw+ features: • Local Acknowledgment, page 207 • Notes on Using LLC2 Local Acknowledgment, page 209 • DLSw+ Support for...

Overview of IBM Networking DLSw+ BC-209 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 3x74 operates as if the acknowledgments it receives are from the 37x5. Router B looks like the 3x74 to 37x5. Because the frames do not have to travel the WAN backbone networks to be acknowle...

Overview of IBM Networking DLSw+ BC-210 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 If you are using NetBIOS applications, note that there are two NetBIOS timers—one at the link level and one at the next higher level. Local acknowledgment for LLC2 is designed to solve link ...

Overview of IBM Networking STUN and BSTUN BC-211 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 Figure 88 VDLC Interaction with Higher-Layer Protocols The higher-layer protocols make no distinction between the VDLC and any other data-link control, but they do identify the VDLC...

Overview of IBM Networking STUN and BSTUN BC-212 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 Figure 89 Comparison of STUN in Passthrough Mode and Local Acknowledgment Mode Note To enable STUN local acknowledgment, you first enable the routers for STUN and configure them to ...

Overview of IBM Networking LLC2 and SDLC Parameters BC-215 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 BSTUN Networks The Bisync feature enables your Cisco 2500, 3600, 4000, 4500, 4700, and 7200 series router to support devices that use the Bisync data-link protocol. This p...

Overview of IBM Networking LLC2 and SDLC Parameters BC-216 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 modifying the control field parameters, you can determine the number of acknowledgments sent for frames received and the level of polling used to determine available stati...

Overview of IBM Networking IBM Network Media Translation BC-217 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 The Cisco Implementation of SDLC The Cisco SDLC implementation supports the following features: • Frame Relay Access Support (FRAS) With FRAS, a router functions as a...

Overview of IBM Networking IBM Network Media Translation BC-218 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 Figure 91 illustrates how SDLLC provides data link layer support for SNA communication. Figure 91 SNA Data Link Layer Support SDLLC Media Translation Features The SDL...

Overview of IBM Networking IBM Network Media Translation BC-219 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 As part of its virtual telecommunications access method (VTAM) configuration, the IBM node on the Token Ring has knowledge of the SDLLC VTRA of the serial device with...

Overview of IBM Networking IBM Network Media Translation BC-220 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 QLLC Conversion Qualified Logical Link Control (QLLC) is a data link protocol defined by IBM that allows SNA data to be transported across X.25 networks. (Although IB...

Overview of IBM Networking IBM Network Media Translation BC-221 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 Figure 95 QLLC Conversion Running on a Router with an Intermediate IP Network The Cisco Implementation of QLLC Conversion SNA uses QLLC and X.25 as link layer protoco...

Overview of IBM Networking IBM Network Media Translation BC-222 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 Figure 97 QLLC Conversion Between a Single 37x5 and Multiple 3x74s across an Arbitrary WAN How communication sessions are established over the communication link vari...

Overview of IBM Networking SNA FRAS BC-223 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 Table 3 shows how the QLLC commands correspond to the SDLLC commands. Other Implementation Considerations Consider the following when implementing QLLC conversion: • To use the QLLC conve...

Overview of IBM Networking NCIA BC-226 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 NCIA Native Client Interface Architecture (NCIA) is a new software architecture introduced by Cisco to make accessing IBM SNA applications over routed internetworks more scalable and flexible...

Overview of IBM Networking NCIA BC-227 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 • The NCIA Server communicates with other components in router, such as RSRB, SNASw, DLSw+, and DSPU. • Supports both connect-in and connect-out. • The NCIA client/server model is independent...

Overview of IBM Networking NCIA BC-228 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 After the peer session has been established, the NDLC protocol establishes the circuit between the client and server. This circuit is used to transfer end-user data between the client and the...

Overview of IBM Networking ALPS BC-229 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 Migration Support Using a client/server model allows the NCIA Server feature to be independent of the upstream implementation, allowing it to be implemented in a network that is still using R...

Overview of IBM Networking DSPU and SNA Service Point BC-230 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 Figure 104 ALPS Architecture The Cisco ALPS feature provides an end-to-end solution for airlines and central reservation systems.The ALPS feature is integrated in the Ci...

Overview of IBM Networking SNA Switching Services BC-232 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 SNA Switching Services Note SNA Switching Services functionality supersedes all functionality previously available in the APPN feature in the Cisco IOS software. SNASw confi...

Overview of IBM Networking HPR Capable SNA Routing Services BC-234 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 HPR Capable SNA Routing Services SNASw provides the following SNA routing functions: • Routes SNA sessions between clients and target SNA data hosts. • Controls SN...

Overview of IBM Networking Usability Features BC-236 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 Usability Features SNASw contains the following usability features designed to make SNA networks easier to design and maintain: • Dynamic CP Name Generation Support, page 236 • ...

Overview of IBM Networking Management Enhancements BC-237 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 Mode ARB architecture. Responsive Mode ARB addresses all the drawbacks of the earlier ARB implementation, providing faster ramp-up, better tolerance of lost frames, and bet...

Overview of IBM Networking LAN and IP-Focused Connection Types BC-238 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 MIB Support for Advanced Network Management Awareness SNASw supports the following Management Information Bases (MIBs): • IETF draft standard DLUR MIB (RFC 2232...

Overview of IBM Networking Cisco Transaction Connection BC-239 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 same LAN. When using native LAN support, SNASw responds only to requests that target the MAC address configured on the local interface. Virtual Token Ring and SRB allo...

Overview of IBM Networking Cisco Transaction Connection BC-240 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 The CTRC software feature provides the following functionality: • CTRC allows Cisco routers to use the intersystem communication (ISC) protocol to provide a gateway be...

Overview of IBM Networking Cisco Transaction Connection BC-241 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 Figure 109 Cisco Router Configured with the CTRC Feature for CICS Communications CTRC and DB2 CTRC enables Cisco routers to implement IBM’s DRDA over TCP/IP. The Cisco...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Hardware BC-242 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 For a TCP/IP host connection, the router with CTRC routes the DRDA packets over TCP/IP without protocol changes. To use this TCP/IP passthrough feature of CTRC, the host data...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Hardware BC-244 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 The Cisco 7200 series router supports online insertion and removal (OIR), which allows you to install or remove port adapters while the system is operating. Note In this chap...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Features for TCP/IP Environments BC-245 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 Supported Environments The Cisco IOS software supports the following environments and features on the CMCC adapters: • TCP/IP Environments—CLAW, TCP/I...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Features for TCP/IP Environments BC-246 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 IP Host Backup You can connect multiple mainframes to a single CMCC adapter using an ESCON director. Often, these mainframes run using the ESCON Multi...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Features for SNA Environments BC-247 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 CMCC Adapter Features for SNA Environments The Cisco IOS software supports the following features for CMCC adapters in SNA environments: • Cisco SNA, pag...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Features for SNA Environments BC-248 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 Cisco Multipath Channel CMPC is Cisco System’s implementation of IBM’s MultiPath Channel (MPC) feature on Cisco 7500, Cisco 7200, and Cisco 7000 with RSP...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Features for SNA Environments BC-249 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 78-11737-02 The TN3270 server feature offers an attractive solution when the following conditions need to be supported in an SNA environment: • Maintaining an IP bac...