The system programmer responsible for identifying the network subareas and their adjacent subareas must provide a configuration of the network subareas. Each network subarea must be defined in the logon manager configuration definition using one of the following formats:

>>-SA--=--x--+--------------------------+----------------------><
             +-,--ADJSA--=--a-----------+   
             |                 .-,-.    |   
             |                 V   |    |   
             '-,--ADJSA--=--(----a-+--)-'   

x

The address for a subarea (SA).

a

The address for an adjacent subarea (ADJSA). The subarea must be adjacent to subarea x.

You can specify multiple adjacent subarea addresses by enclosing them within parentheses and separating them with a comma.

All network subareas that you are defining to the logon manager must have their addresses appear in SA definition statements as either x or a.

The SAs supplied by the system programmer are used by the logon manager to build a HOP table. The HOP table contains the minimum distance between subareas and is used for multitask support.