The IBM TCP/IP Connection - Issue 1992-04



June 16, 1992 Issue 92-04

The intent of this newsletter is to publicize items of interest for both IBM and customer personnel who have an interest in TCP/IP. Articles from devel- opment, marketing, and users are all eligible for inclusion in future issues. If you have an item of interest that you would like to have published please contact Alan Reinhold (8-352-3173 or 919-301-3173).

TCP/IP FOR MVS --VERSION 2.2            other tasks. Freeing the resources of a  mainframe,  approximately 30% A new release of TCP/IP for MVS has     for many TCP/IP for MVS file  trans- been announced. Two new features,     fers,  can  mean  savings equal to a  CICS Socket Feature and Offload  for      tenfold return on the investment  in  OS/2  Feature,  will  also be avail-      the   new   controller   and  TCP/IP able. New and enhanced features:        Offload application.

o   CICS Sockets for  Client/Server      The Model 3 when  running  with  the applications                         new  licensed  program, Interconnect Controller Program (ICP) Version 3, o    MVS  Offload  using  new  3172      performs  twice as fast as the Model Model 3                              1 due  to  a  powerful  Intel  80486 microprocessor. This improved per- o   Print support using LPR/LPD          formance is especially attractive to                                            users who need to share  large  data o   REXEC Client / Kerberos / NCS        files,  such as those used in scien- tific and engineering applications, o   Network Database support (NDB)       with other users on the network.

o   FTP batch SQL Query support          FTN  TCP-V2.2,  3172, AND DIRECTIONS JULY 10 o   SMF -TELNET/FTP Server Support This one  hour  Field  Television o   RISC/6000 Channel Attachment         Network  broadcast  will  review the recent announcements  and   present o   Host Channel to Channel,  CETI,      IBM's   Trends  and  Directions  for and HIPPI                            TCP/IP on the host  and  workstation platforms. Broadcast receive facili- NEW MODEL OF 3172 INTERCONNECT CON-      ties  are  in  all IBM branch office TROLLER - MODEL 3                        locations  and  are  available   for direct customer receipt with satel- The new Model 3 LAN gateway supports     lite receive capability. The broad- sending information from Token-Ring,     cast  will  be  at  9:30AM  EDT  and Ethernet, and FDDI Local Area  Net-      repeated at 12:30 EDT for West Coast works to mainframes. reception.

With TCP/IP  offload,  some  of the      DEVELOPER'S FORUM  JULY 28-29 TCP/IP work is handled by a 3172-003 instead of  a  mainframe,   thereby        The  Houston  Trading  Area   will freeing  the  mainframe  to  handle      contact   a   Developer's  Forum  on

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TCP/IP. IBM development  personnel      System (NQS) protocol is  a  popular will  present   topics  on  various      method for submitting batch requests TCP/IP  platforms   and   technical      to   remote  UNIX  machines  over  a  topics:                                   TCP/IP  network. NQS/MVS expands this  open   systems   solution  to  o   Where:    IBM   Corporation,   2      include  the  submission  of   batch Riverway, Houston, TX 77056          requests  to an MVS TCP/IP platform. NQS/MVS acts as a mediator  between o  Contact:     Cameron      Haight      the  NQS  protocol and MVS JES2 ser- (919-940-2310)                       vices. CHAIGHT@DALVMIC5.VNET.IBM.COM NQS/MVS extends  the  standard  NQS o  Topics:   MVS,   VM,  OS2,  DOS,      commands for submitting, cancelling, AS/400, CICS Sockets,  Perform-      and  checking  status of jobs on MVS ance, 3172,  6611 Multiprotocol      directly from  a  UNIX  workstation; Router, NETVIEW/6000, AIX,  and      the  user  doesn't have to log on to      3174                                  TSO. A user can request either that 07/28: Course Code EM048         output  be  sent  back  to  a  work- 07/29: Course Code EM049         station,  or  that  it remain on MVS Both : Course Code EM050         for later reference. This is par- ticularly beneficial if workstation NEW  NETWORK   QUEUING   SYSTEM/MVS      users  already   were   using   NQS. (NQS/MVS) PROGRAM PRODUCT  (PROGRAM      Rather  than  learning  new commands  NUMBER: 5695-168)                         and new programming languages,  user can use virtually the same commands IBM has  announced  the IBM Network      to do batch job processing on remote Queueing  System/MVS   Version    1      UNIX and MVS machines. Release 1. The Network Queueing

FUNCTION                                     SYSTEM ________                                     ______

VM   MVS   OS/2    DOS  OS/400 RS/6000 ___  ____  _____   ____ _______________

Connectivity ____________ RING/Ethernet             Y      Y      Y      Y      Y        Y  X.25 Packet Network       Y      Y      Y     OEM     Y        Y  FDDI (100MB Fiber)        Y      Y     ---    ---    ---       Y  SLIP (Modem/Dial)        ---    ---     Y      Y     ---       Y  COAX (3270 Cable) 3174   ---    ---     Y      Y     ---     --- TCP over SNA Network    LU0  LU0/LU6.2---    ---    ---    LU6.2

Client Server Applications __________________________ FTP (File Transfer)      C/S    C/S    C/S    C/S    C/S     C/S TELNET (terminal)       C/S    C/S    C/S     C     C/S     C/S 3270                  C/S    C/S     C      C     C/S       C    VT100/VT200            OEM    OEM    C/S     C     4Q92    C/S SMTP (mail)             C/S    C S    C/S    C S    C/S     C/S LPR/LPD (Print)         C/S    C/S    C/S     C     ---     C/S NFS (Network File)       S      S     C/S     C     SOD     C/S NDB (Database)           S      S     ---    ---    ---       C  X-WINDOWS (Graphic)       C      C      S     OEM    SOD     C/S REXEC(Remote command)   C/S     C     C/S     C     ---     C/S

Application Interfaces ______________________ SOCKETS                   Y      Y      Y      Y      Y        Y  KERBEROS(Authenication)   Y      Y      Y     ---    ---     SOD RPC (Remote Procedure)   Y      Y      Y      Y     ---       Y  NCS (Network Computing)   Y      Y      Y     ---    ---       Y  MOTIF (OSF ToolKit)       Y      Y     SOD    ---    SOD       Y

Management __________ SNMP                      Y      Y      Y     SOD    SOD       Y

C=Client, S=Server, OEM=Available from Third Parties, SOD=Direction 