z/OS Communications Server

Networks

Please! Verify all details or suggestions with the appropriate vendor and / or vendor's manuals.

Communications Server supports secure TCP/IP, SNA, and UNIX networking throughout an enterprise. It gives you the ability to connect subsystems and applications to each other and to connect network devices. Communications Server consists of TCP/IP and SNA functions.

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As part of the z/OS operating system which runs on the IBM zSeries server platform, z/OS Communications Server delivers high quality service for enterprise transactions and data. It provides a highly secure, scalable, reliable, and high-performance base on which to build and deploy networking applications. z/OS Communications Server is a secure, high-performance base on which to build and deploy networking applications. It offers mainframe network security and enables SNA and TCP/IP applications running on z/OS to communicate with partner applications and users on the same or different systems.

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