Can PSF/AIX take SNA in and TCP/IP out with PSF/VSE?

ITEM: RTA000149724



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Abstract: Can PSF/AIX take SNA in and TCP/IP out with PSF/VSE?                  
                                                                                
Customer has VSE and no AFP at all.  They want to print to 3160s on an          
Ethernet LAN.  I'd like to recommend getting PSF/VSE and PSF for AIX,           
and get a Token Ring to attach the RS/6000 to handle the SNA connection         
from PSF/VSE Direct to the PSF for AIX.  If they insist on attaching the        
3160s to their Ethernet, can they also hook up the RS/6000 to the               
Ethernet and go TCP/IP outbound?  In other words, have PSF/VSE have an          
SNA connection from the host on Token Ring into PSF for AIX and go out          
to Ethernet LAN on TCP/IP?                                                      
                                                                                
Thanks.                                                                         
                                                                                
A:                                                                             
Absolutely.  You can use PSF Direct (SNA) with PSF/VSE to route jobs to         
a host receiver running under PSF/AIX.  In turn, that host receiver can         
route output to any of the printers that PSF/AIX normally supports,             
including TCP/IP-attached IPDS printers such as the 3160.  The printers         
can be TCP/IP-attached on either Ethernet or Token-Ring.                        
                                                                                
The connection between the VSE system and the RS/6000 can be any of             
the connections over which Communications Server for AIX (formerly              
known as SNA Server for AIX) supports LU6.2 sessions.  Token-ring is            
one of those, but there are a number of others as well.                         
                                                                                
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S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:                                                  
psf/6000 psf/aix direct sna tcp/ip ethernet token ring tokenring               
psf/vse aix vse 6.2                                                             
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                               


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Dated: 03/1999 Category: XPSF6000
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