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3270 Host Connection Program 2.1 and 1.3.3 for AIX: Guide and Reference
Configuring SNA Services for Use with HCON
This article provides information on configuring SNA services for use with HCON.
Prerequisites
- The HCON program and messages should be installed on your system.
- SNA Services must be installed on your system.
- You must have root user authority to set up SNA profiles.
Procedure
Configure SNA to communicate with HCON by:
- Setting up an SNA physical network and configuring the necessary adapters. HCON supports running SNA Services over the following types of physical networks:
- Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC)
- Token-Ring
- Ethernet
- X.25
Before you can use HCON to connect to a host using SNA Services, use the smit devices fast path command to configure the adapters necessary for the physical network you choose.
- Setting up the SNA Services profiles using the smit sna fast path command. Profiles must be set up to provide an attachment for each physical communications link and a connection for each HCON session.
- Set up an attachment by configuring the following profiles:
- SNA Physical Link
- SNA Logical Link
- SNA Control Point
- SNA Attachment
- SNA Node
Note: Set the SERVER synonym name
field of the SNA Node Profile to sna
.
- Set up a connection by configuring the following profiles for each logical unit (LU) address:
- SNA Local LU
- SNA Logical Connection
Notes:
- The notify support
field of the SNA Logical Connection profile must be set to yes
.
- Set up the SNA Control Point profile, the SNA Local LU profiles, and the SNA Logical Connection profiles, using the SMIT SNA panel named Configure LU
Profiles for 3270 Communication
.
- It is not advisable to use a : (colon) when entering information into SMIT text-entry fields. SMIT interprets a : (colon) as a field delimiter.
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