IBM Mainframe

About this course:

The IBM Mainframe Communications Concepts course provides an overview of traditional SNA and TCP/IP communication protocols and the logical and physical components associated with them.

IBM Mainframe Course Outline:

SNA Subarea Networks

• Logical Units and Terminals
• Physical Units and Controllers
• SNA links
• Defining and activating resources
• Sessions and the SSCP
• Subareas
• SNI and CDRMs

SNA Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking

• Introducing APPN
• APPN Nodes
• LU 6.2 and APPC
• DLU Requesters and Servers

Mainframe TCP/IP Networks

• Introducing TCP/IP on the Mainframe
• The Mainframe OSA Adapter
• Other TCP/IP Connectivity options

SNA Today

• SNA through TCP/IP
• TN3270
• DLSw
• Communications Controller for Linux (CCL)
• Enterprise Extender