Document Outline

• Contents
• Part 1. Getting started with AS/400 communications
• Chapter 1. Print this topic
• Chapter 2. Configuring AS/400 for communications
  • Creating a network interface description
  • Creating a network server description
  • Creating a line description
• Chapter 3. Optimizing communications performance
  • Improving wide area network performance
    • Adjusting WAN protocols for optimum AS/400 performance
    • Adjusting the WAN line speed for optimum AS/400 performance
    • WAN line speed considerations for IOPs
  • Improving local area network performance
    • Adjusting LANs for optimum communications performance
    • Adjusting LAN lines for optimum communications performance
    • LAN line speed considerations for IOPs
  • Improving data path performance
    • Considerations for subsystem configuration for error recovery performance
      • Example: Communications subsystem configuration
    • Communications performance considerations for interactive jobs
      • Example: Interactive subsystem configuration
    • Communications performance considerations for batch jobs
    • Mixing interactive and batch jobs on a WAN line
    • Performance considerations for AnyNet communications
      • Setting up the AnyNet environment
      • AnyNet communications for the AS/400 system
    • Subsystems
• Chapter 4. Communications applications
  • User written APPC applications
  • Distributed data management (DDM)
  • Application program interface (API) performance considerations
    • Performance considerations for intersystem communications function
    • Performance considerations for Common Programming Interface Communications
• Chapter 5. Communicating with host systems
  • Matching AS/400 parameters for a host system
    • Matching AS/400 line description parameters for a host system
    • Matching AS/400 controller description parameters for a host system
    • Matching AS/400 device description parameters for a host system
    • Matching AS/400 mode and class-of-service description parameters for a host system
      • Examples: Connecting AS/400 to a host system
  • Configuring dependent LU requester (DLUR)
    • Configuring the host controller description
    • Configuring the device descriptions
• Chapter 6. Communicating with a remote AS/400 system
  • Matching AS/400 line description parameters for a remote AS/400 system
  • Matching AS/400 controller description parameters for a remote AS/400 system
  • Matching AS/400 device description parameters for a remote AS/400 system
  • Connecting one AS/400 to another AS/400 system
• Chapter 7. Communicating with remote workstation controllers
  • Matching AS/400 parameters for 5494 controllers
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for a 5494 connected by token-ring
      • Example: Connecting AS/400 to a 5494 controller connected by token-ring
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for a 5494 connected by Ethernet
      • Example: Connecting AS/400 to a 5494 controller connected by Ethernet
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for a 5494 connected by frame relay
      • Example: Connecting an AS/400 to a 5494 controller connected by frame relay
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for a 5494 connected by SDLC
      • Example: Connecting AS/400 to a 5494 controller connected by SDLC
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for a 5494 connected by X.21
      • Example: Connecting AS/400 to a 5494 controller connected by X.21
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for a 5494 connected by X.25
      • Example: Connecting AS/400 to a 5494 controller connected by X.25
  • Matching AS/400 parameters for 3x74 controller
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for a 3174 controller
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for a 3274 controller
      • Example: Connecting an AS/400 to a 3174 control unit
  • Matching AS/400 parameters for finance controllers
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for 470x finance controllers
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for FBSS finance controllers
      • Example: Connecting AS/400 to a finance network
  • Matching AS/400 parameters for retail controllers
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for 3651 retail controllers
      • Specifying the SDLCLIN parameter for 3651 retail controllers
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for 3684 retail controllers
      • Specifying the LINECON parameter for 3684 retail controllers
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for 4680/4690 LINE parameter
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for 4680/4690 LINK parameter
    • Matching AS/400 parameters for 4684 retail controllers
      • Examples: Connecting AS/400 to a 4690 retail controller
• Chapter 8. Troubleshooting communications problems
  • Displaying message queues to solve communication problems
  • Displaying the Product Activity Log to solve communication problems
  • Displaying the Print Error Log to solve communication problems
    • Job logs and communication problems
  • Solving communication problems using communications trace
    • System service tools and communication problems
    • Trace Common Programming Interface (CPI) Communications (TRCCPIC) command
  • Solving communication problems using the system problem log
  • Solving communication problems using status information
  • Considerations for system tuning during error recovery
  • Using error messages to aid in error recovery
  • Solving communication problems using reason codes
• Chapter 9. Networking concepts
  • Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
  • Advanced program-to-program communications
  • Dependent LU requester support
  • High-performance routing
    • HPR architecture option sets
  • Internetwork packet exchange support
  • What is Systems Network Architecture
  • What is TCP/IP
• Chapter 10. Common networking standards
  • Local area network standards
    • ATM on AS/400
    • Distributed data interface network
    • Ethernet networks
    • Token-ring networks
    • Wireless network
  • Wide area network standards
    • Asynchronous communications
    • Binary synchronous communications
    • Frame relay networks
    • Integrated services digital network
      • ISDN data link control network
    • Synchronous data link control network
    • X.25 network
    • X.21 network