HP 3000 Manuals

SNA IMF Programmer's Reference Manual

Hewlett Packard's IMF Products 

Hewlett-Packard offers three different IMF products:  SNA IMF/VIMF/V on
MPE V, SNA IMF/XLIMF/XL on MPE XL, and IMF/3000on 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/VIMF/V migrationIMF/V (on MPE V)
with minor modifications to your HP application programs.  Appendix D 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 programmatic access mode for both SNA IMF/V and SNA
IMF/XL. Pass Thru mode for SNA IMF/V and SNA IMF/XL is documented in
Using SNA IMF Pass Thru.  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.

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