On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:11:28 +0100, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>... there are three great benefits from running APPN, no PATH > statements, no PATH statements, no PATH statements ... That might be better put "dynamic pathing, dynamic pathing, dynamic pathing". You not only don't have to code path definitions, but if there are multiple paths between two end point and one path fails, switching to another path is nondisruptive. That would be a huge advantage even if we had to hard-code the paths. It seems to me that this dynamic pathing could have been provided with clasic subarea SNA. The mapping of Explicit Routes to Virtual Routes could have been dynamic rather than static. It wouldn't surprise me if that had been intended as a "next step" but was abandoned whan APPN gained a foothold. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
