Talk:IBM Systems Network Architecture
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The demise of SNA has always been predicted but will not be till IBM says so.
From the article:
- The first numbers of your credit card is usually a SNA routing sequence.
Really? Can we have a cite for this?
On a SNA based VISANET Take a TranScan a PC-based intelligent protocol monitor and analyzer designed to support Credit Card, Debit Card, Bank Card and Financial Transaction Processors press B to show message routing and usually it is your credit card number
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2003-sep-13. Starting from version 5.2 of IBM OS400, SNA for client-access is no longer supported
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==Advantages and Disadvantages== I have added this section to replace the original second paragraph. The original paragraph didn't make any sense to me. The article could use a paragraph on writing applications to use SNA/VTAM (particularly to communicate with other programs). Said paragraph should follow the enumeration of LU types. Rdmoore6 19:29, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Network Control Program
I decided not to make Network Control Program a wiki link. Problem is that existing article describes the ARPANET NCP and says nothing about IBM's use of the same term in SNA.Rdmoore6 19:41, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
- Linked to IBM Network Control Program. Philcha 16:09, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Objectives of SNA; Principal components and technologies
I've added these 2 sections. "Objectives of SNA" deals mainly with the commercial aspects, including how "Dark Ages" data communications was before SNA and X.25 - something modern non-specialist readers will not understand if they are not told very plainly.
Can anyone provide refs for them? I was an IBM employee at the time (my last project for IBM was SNA-related) and have summarised internal IBM presentations (omitting a lot of details which would confuse general readers), but have no references I can cite.Philcha 16:01, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
