IBM AS/400, Hardware User Manual

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Matching AS/400 parameters for a 5494 connected by frame relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Matching AS/400 parameters for a 5494 connected by SDLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Matching AS/400 parameters for a 5494 connected by X.21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Matching AS/400 parameters for a 5494 connected by X.25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Matching AS/400 parameters for 3x74 controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Matching AS/400 parameters for a 3174 controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Matching AS/400 parameters for a 3274 controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Matching AS/400 parameters for finance controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Matching AS/400 parameters for 470x finance controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Matching AS/400 parameters for FBSS finance controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Matching AS/400 parameters for retail controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Matching AS/400 parameters for 3651 retail controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Matching AS/400 parameters for 3684 retail controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Matching AS/400 parameters for 4680/4690 LINE parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Matching AS/400 parameters for 4680/4690 LINK parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Matching AS/400 parameters for 4684 retail controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Chapter 8. Troubleshooting communications problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Displaying message queues to solve communication problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Displaying the Product Activity Log to solve communication problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Displaying the Print Error Log to solve communication problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Job logs and communication problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Solving communication problems using communications trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
System service tools and communication problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Trace Common Programming Interface (CPI) Communications (TRCCPIC) command . . . . . . 82
Solving communication problems using the system problem log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Solving communication problems using status information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Considerations for system tuning during error recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Using error messages to aid in error recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Solving communication problems using reason codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 9. Networking concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Advanced program-to-program communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Dependent LU requester support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
High-performance routing
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
HPR architecture option sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Internetwork packet exchange support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
What is Systems Network Architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
What is TCP/IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Chapter 10. Common networking standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Local area network standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
ATM on AS/400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Distributed data interface network
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Ethernet networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Token-ring networks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Wireless network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Wide area network standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Asynchronous communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Binary synchronous communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Frame relay networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Integrated services digital network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Synchronous data link control network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
X.25 network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
X.21 network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
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