Step 15. Activating the network communication function

Include this task when installing a tracker, controller, or standby controller that will use NCF for communication.

If you want to use a VTAM® link to connect a tracker to the controller, activate NCF. The controller can then send work to the tracker and receive event information back, using the VTAM link. To achieve this connection, activate NCF in both the controller and the tracker. To do this:

• Add NCF to the VTAM network definitions.
• Add NCF session parameters.
• Activate network resources.

If you want to connect a controller and Data Store using SNA you need different VTAM definitions. NCF is involved only in the tracker connection; the equivalent task in the Data Store connection is the FN task.