Administration Guide

What Is CS/AIX?

CS/AIX is a software product that enables AIX computers to participate in an SNA network that includes mainframes, and other computers. With CS/AIX, you can access data and programs that reside on other computer systems, thereby increasing your computing power.

CS/AIX includes the following facilities:

SNA communication facilities

CS/AIX nodes can operate within an SNA subarea network, within an APPN network, or within both at the same time. For more information about SNA support supplied by CS/AIX, see SNA Support.

Passthrough services

CS/AIX includes services that support communication between a host and computers on a LAN, making it possible to reduce the number of communication links to the host, simplify configuration of SNA nodes, and provide host access for computers that have no direct link to a host. In addition, AnyNetfeatures can support communication between applications across both SNA and TCP/IP networks. For more information about passthrough services, see Passthrough Services.

User applications

CS/AIX supports the following user applications:

• 3270 emulation
• 5250 emulation
• APPC Application Suite

For more information about user applications, see User Applications.

Application programming interfaces

CS/AIX includes application programming interfaces (APIs) that you can use to write user application programs or CS/AIX administration programs. For more information about CS/AIX APIs, see Application Programming Interfaces.

Administration facilities

CS/AIX includes several methods and tools you can use to configure and manage CS/AIX servers. For more information about CS/AIX administration, see CS/AIX Administration.