Cisco Systems S/390 manual Product Changes, Enhanced APIs, Other Enhancements

Enhanced APIs

Enhanced APIs

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OS/390 OpenEdition (UNIX System Services) asynchronous I/O (required for DB2 V5 TCP/IP support) and SRB mode.

•Multiple BIND support for server applications (parallel processing for FTP, Telnet, and vendor applications).

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Enhanced TLI interface—data spaces, cross memory, SRB mode, etc.

SAS 6.0 support.

Other Enhancements

•Year 2000 support.

•FTP server support for IP address as RACROUTE TERMID—allows security rules to deny FTP access unless permitted by IP address.

•Cisco router-based queuing—IP Type of Service (TOS) can be set for applications to better interface to Cisco queuing mechanisms like Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ).

Product Changes

•The parameter WRELIM has been removed from the UDP and TCP statements. Buffering is handled automatically in Cisco IOS for S/390 release 2.0.

•Some of the control blocks for the POOL command have changed. The EPCB control block is now called the SEPM, the SRE is now called the SAW, and the ARCB, TUCB, and TSQB control blocks have been combined into the ATCB. The 256B pool no longer exists.

•The message ACC210I Internet Protocol Task Started no longer displays to indicate that startup has completed. A message will display indicating startup completion in Cisco IOS for S/390 release 2.0. The message number will vary, depending on the device you are using; the message text will be

Media media_name is now operational with one or more active interfaces.

Initialization and termination messages now appear in mixed case. This may impact some automated operations packages that search for messages to invoke some action. You should review these messages and take appropriate action.

•Some parameters for Cisco IOS for S/390 release 2.0 have been renamed to improve readability, but aliases have been added for the names used in Version release 1.0. The following names and aliases are available for Cisco IOS for S/390 release 2.0:

Table 1	Parameter Aliases
Parameters	Aliases
MAXSNDBUF	MAXSENDBUF	MAXLSEND	MAXLSND
MAXRCVBUF	MAXRECVBUF	MAXLRECV	MAXLRCV
DEFQSEND	DEFQSND
DEFQRECV	DEFQRCV
DEFSNDBUF	DEFSENDBUF	DEFLSEND	DEFLSND
DEFRCVBUF	DEFRECVBUF	DEFLRECV	DEFLRCV
MAXTSEND	MAXTSND	MAXLTSEND	MAXLTSND
MAXTRECV	MAXTRCV	MAXLTRECV	MAXLTRCV

Cisco IOS for S/390 Release 2.0 Release Notes 3