On Feb 16, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Chris Mason wrote:
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Ed,
If I were cynical I could suspect that you just got rid of your
3745s and
associated (through not exclusively so) software last week/last
year/only 5
years ago but you have conditioned your mind into wishing it was a lot
longer ago - hence the (deliberate) mistakes :-) or maybe :-( -
leaving just
enough clues for some poor "IBM networker" to pick up the hints.
As John Chase pointed out (and he obviously never got his head
round how to
specify just the reports you actually needed - understandable) the
product
component is ACF/TAP and it is a component of ACF/SSP (not SSL). In
longhand
that's ACF = Advanced Communications Function, TAP = Trace Analysis
Program
and SSP = System Support Programs. The ACF is there - and seems to
have
stuck - because TAP was added to SSP at the time VTAM, NCP and SSP
went
"program product" in the late seventies and they all got ACF stuck
in front
of them in order to distinguish them from the "at no extra charge"
predecessors. Happily the ACF got dropped from VTAM, NCP and SSP
some time
ago. There is clearly an issue about access to TAP in the era of
trying to
convert SNA mainframe networking away from 3745s and NCP when SSP,
as a
whole, becomes unnecessary. Since I am no longer in the thick of
things, I
will have to leave that for someone else to answer that conundrum.
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Sorry it was a typo.
Ed
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