The IBM TCP/IP Connection - Issue 1992-04

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                            The IBM TCP/IP Connection


                                                                  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



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  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













































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