VTAM Facilities and Operations

Summary

This course provides the fundamentals of VTAM/APPN to operators and systems programmers. Topics include SNA architecture, SNA data flow, and VTAM/APPN configurations and services.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Duration

4.5 days/Lecture & Lab

Audience

This course is designed for computer operators and systems programmers that need a better understanding of the VTAM environment and the operation of APPN.

Topics

• Understand SNA concepts and definitions
• Examine SNA protocol stack
• Review basic VTAM/SNA function.
• Introduce subarea vs APPN networks
• Overview
• Start Up Options and Configuration List LAB
• Connecting APPN Nodes to VTAM
• APPN and LEN Node Structure
• APPN Services
• High Performance Routing (HPR)