Tommy I suspect what the title of your post should really be is:
"The APPC Application Suite is no longer supported on z/OS 1.9" You'll notice that "APPC" has been converted to "APPC Application Suite" - the important change, that I have improved the grammar slightly and that I have represented the z/OS level description a little more usually. This is now a true statement of the support for the APPC Application Suite in z/OS 1.9. Quoting from the first hit with "APPC" in the Communications Server SNA Network Implementation Guide: <quote> Deleted information - The APPC Application Suite is removed from the z/OS V1R9 Communications Server product and therefore documentation describing APPC Application Suite support has been deleted. </quote> Incidentally, I have every confidence that all of the programs in the APPC Application Suite will continue to work flawlessly as long as APPC/MVS continues to be supported and APPC/MVS *does* continue to be supported in z/OS 1.9.[1] Thus, again with an enhancement to the grammar, perhaps your first question should be: "Are there any shops with a migration plan for the APPC Application Suite applications?" with the implied further statement: "If so, I would like to hear about such migration plans." Perhaps - although I may be making a guess too far here - your second question should really be: "Are there any shops using FTP instead of AFTP, the file transfer program from the APPC Application Suite?" This presupposes that, since - tragically - the AnyNet Sockets over SNA component was withdrawn a couple of releases ago, the transport available between the AFTP client and AFTP server simultaneously needs to be converted from SNA to IP, a rather more challenging conversion I should imagine. Of course, the possibility exists that AFTP is already being supported over an IP network using Enterprise Extender. One "migration plan" which suggests itself is to make sure that you make a copy of the libraries containing the APPC Application Suite from z/OS 1.8 - or whatever level of z/OS you are using currently - before overwriting with the upgrade to z/OS 1.9. Chris Mason [1] I checked. There does not appear to have been any update to the APPC/MVS manuals but the manuals do feature on the z/OS 1.9 "bookshelves". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
