IBM BC-203 - Manuals

Overview of IBM Networking DLSw+ BC-208 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 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 reduces the am...

Overview of IBM Networking DLSw+ BC-209 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide This section contains information on the following topics related to DLSw+ features: • Local Acknowledgment, page 209 • Notes on Using LLC2 Local Acknowledgment, page 211 • DLSw+ Support for Other SNA F...

Overview of IBM Networking DLSw+ BC-211 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 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 acknowledged, but ar...

Overview of IBM Networking DLSw+ BC-212 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 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 timeouts onl...

Overview of IBM Networking STUN and BSTUN BC-213 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 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 as a destin...

Overview of IBM Networking STUN and BSTUN BC-214 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 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 appear on th...

Overview of IBM Networking LLC2 and SDLC Parameters BC-217 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 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 protocol enab...

Overview of IBM Networking LLC2 and SDLC Parameters BC-218 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide LLC2 and SDLC package data in frames. LLC2 and SDLC stations require acknowledgments from receiving stations after a set amount of frames have been sent before sending further data. T...

Overview of IBM Networking IBM Network Media Translation BC-219 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide Cisco’s Implementation of SDLC Cisco’s SDLC implementation supports the following features: • Frame Relay Access Support (FRAS) With FRAS, a router functions as a Frame Relay Acc...

Overview of IBM Networking IBM Network Media Translation BC-220 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide Figure 91 SNA Data Link Layer Support SDLLC Media Translation Features The SDLLC feature allows a PU 4, PU 2.1, or PU 2 to communicate with a PU 2 SDLC device as follows: • SDLLC...

Overview of IBM Networking IBM Network Media Translation BC-221 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 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 which it co...

Overview of IBM Networking IBM Network Media Translation BC-222 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 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 IBM has define...

Overview of IBM Networking IBM Network Media Translation BC-223 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide Figure 95 QLLC Conversion Running on a Router with an Intermediate IP Network Cisco’s Implementation of QLLC Conversion SNA uses QLLC and X.25 as link layer protocols to provide ...

Overview of IBM Networking IBM Network Media Translation BC-224 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide As Figure 97 shows, a router need not directly connect the two IBM end nodes; instead, some type of backbone WAN can connect them. Here, RSRB transports packets between Router A ...

Overview of IBM Networking IBM Network Media Translation BC-225 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide circuits (PVCs) are available, but the favored use is SVC. While the router maintains a permanent connection to the X.25 network, a remote device can use each SVC for some bounde...

Overview of IBM Networking SNA FRAS BC-226 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide SNA FRAS Using Frame Relay Access Support (FRAS), the Cisco IOS software allows branch SNA devices to connect directly to a central site front-end processor over a Frame Relay network. FRAS converts ...

Overview of IBM Networking NCIA BC-228 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide Figure 100 RFC 1490 Bridged Frame Format Because it includes the MAC header information in every frame, BAN supports multiple SNA devices sharing a single permanent virtual circuit without requiring SAP ...

Overview of IBM Networking NCIA BC-229 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide NCIA I Cisco’s NCIA server feature implements RFC 2114, Data Link Switch Client Access Protocol. Using Cisco’s RSRB technology, NCIA I encapsulates the Token Ring traffic inside IP datagrams passed over ...

Overview of IBM Networking NCIA BC-231 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide Advantages of the Client/Server Model The client/server model used in the NCIA Server feature extends the scalability of NCIA. In addition, it provides support for both the installed base of RSRB routers...

Overview of IBM Networking ALPS BC-232 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide Figure 103 NCIA Server Provides Independence from the Upstream Network Implementation ALPS The Airline Product Set (ALPS) is a tunneling mechanism that transports airline protocol data across a TCP/IP ne...

Overview of IBM Networking DSPU and SNA Service Point BC-233 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide Figure 104 ALPS Architecture Cisco’s ALPS feature provides an end-to-end solution for airlines and central reservation systems.The ALPS feature is integrated in the Cisco IOS softwa...

Overview of IBM Networking SNA Switching Services BC-235 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide SNA Switching Services Note SNA Switching Services functionality supersedes all functionality previously available in the APPN feature in the Cisco IOS software. SNASw configuration wil...

Overview of IBM Networking HPR Capable SNA Routing Services BC-237 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide HPR Capable SNA Routing Services SNASw provides the following SNA routing functions: • Routes SNA sessions between clients and target SNA data hosts. • Supports full SNA class...

Overview of IBM Networking Usability Features BC-239 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide Usability Features SNASw contains the following usability features designed to make SNA networks easier to design and maintain: • Dynamic CP Name Generation Support, page 239 • Dynamic SNA ...

Overview of IBM Networking Management Enhancements BC-240 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide Responsive Mode Adaptive Rate-Based Flow Control Early HPR implementations failed to perform well in environments subject to packet loss (for example, Frame Relay, IP transport) and pe...

Overview of IBM Networking LAN and IP-Focused Connection Types BC-241 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide Trap MIB Support for Advanced Network Management Awareness SNASw supports the APPN Trap MIB, which proactively sends traps with information about changes in SNA resource st...

Overview of IBM Networking Cisco Transaction Connection BC-242 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide Connection to Channel Interface Processor and Channel Port Adapter Virtual Token Ring and SRB can be used to connect SNASw to the Channel Interface Processor (CIP) or Channel Port...

Overview of IBM Networking Cisco Transaction Connection BC-243 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide • CTRC supports the ability to configure routes for CICS transaction. Each transaction can be routed to a specific CICS region. • In addition to its CICS-related functionality, CT...

Overview of IBM Networking Cisco Transaction Connection BC-244 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 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 router with...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Hardware BC-245 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 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 database version...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Hardware BC-246 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide Figure 112 Cisco Mainframe Channel Connection Adapters Channel Interface Processor The CIP for the Cisco 7000 with RSP7000 and Cisco 7500 series routers is designed for high-end network ...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Hardware BC-247 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 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 chapter, referen...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Features for TCP/IP Environments BC-248 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide Supported Environments The Cisco IOS software supports the following environments and features on the CMCC adapters: • TCP/IP Environments—CLAW, TCP/IP offload, I...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Features for TCP/IP Environments BC-249 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide IP Host Backup You can connect multiple mainframes to a single CMCC adapter using an ESCON director. Often, these mainframes run using the ESCON Multiple Image Fa...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Features for SNA Environments BC-250 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide CMCC Adapter Features for SNA Environments The Cisco IOS software supports the following features for CMCC adapters in SNA environments: • Cisco SNA, page 250 • Cisc...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Features for SNA Environments BC-251 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide 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 RSP7000 series ...

Overview of IBM Networking CMCC Adapter Features for SNA Environments BC-252 Cisco IOS Bridging and IBM Networking Configuration Guide The TN3270 server feature offers an attractive solution when the following conditions need to be supported in an SNA environment: • Maintaining an IP backbone while ...