HP 3000 Manuals

Using SNA IMF Pass Thru

Hewlett Packard's IMF Products 

Hewlett-Packard offers three different IMF products:  SNA IMF/V 
on MPE V. SNA IMF/V and SNA IMF/XL use Synchronous Data Link Control
(SDLC) protocol.  IMF/3000, which runs only on MPE V, supports either
Binary Synchronous Communications (BSC)or SDLCprotocol.  An HP 3000
running IMF/3000 functions as a Type 1 node.

You can migrate from IMF/3000 to SNA IMF/V 
(on MPE V) with minor modifications to your HP application programs.
Appendix F of this manual describes the differences between IMF/3000 and
SNA IMF/V.


NOTE  IMF/3000 is currently supported only on MPE V.


This manual describes Pass Thru mode for both SNA IMF/V and SNA IMF/XL.
Programmatic access mode for SNA IMF/V and SNA IMF/XL is documented in
theSNA IMF Programmer's Reference Manual.  The IMF/3000 product is
documented in the IMF/3000 User/Programmer Reference Manual. 


NOTE  In this manual, the term SNA IMF is used when the information being
      given is true for both SNA IMF/V and SNA IMF/XL. The terms SNA 
      IMF/V and SNA IMF/XL are used when a distinction between the two
      products is necessary.

      The term IMF/3000 refers to the IMF product on MPE V that supports
      BSC protocol.

MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation