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Foreign Service Connection FSC is the method by which HP Desk messages can be sent to and received from non-HP Desk systems. In the case of the Pharaoh Company, the foreign system is an IBM computer but it could just as easily be any external application running on the HP 3000, such as a payroll or invoicing program, which produces reports which are used by HP Desk users. As for EFT, a gateway must be configured on the computer at which the messages will enter and leave the HP Desk system. The gateway must be specified for the relevant format as agreed by the HP Desk Administrator, and his counterpart on the foreign system. The HP Desk Administrator, and probably the foreign computer Administrator, must provide an external program to arrange for both the transport and , if necessary, further conversion to and from the mutually agreed ARPA format. The information required is in the manual HP DeskManager Customization. The HP DeskManager Intrinsics An improved method of communicating with non-HP Desk mail systems is now provided by the Intrinsics. A gateway must be configured on the computer at which messages will enter and leave the HP Desk system. Computers at which gateways reside must have external programs resident on them to allow the transportation of messages. You should refer to the manual HP DeskManager Intrinsics for more information if you have the HP Desk Intrinsics installed on your system. Connecting to IBM To configure an FSC gateway to an IBM computer, Hewlett-Packard has products which manage the transporting and converting messages for you: * HP OfficeConnect to PROFS * HP OfficeConnect to DISOSS Both of these applications run on the HP 3000 and interface with the FSC gateway configured in HP Desk. In our example, the Pharaoh Company has three IBM computers. At each of the Corporate Headquarters there is an IBM mainframe which is used by the Accounting Department for large-scale number crunching operations. The financial information it provides is used by managers and financial planners in the Corporate Administration Department for financial forecasts and corporate planning. The third machine is in Liverpool and is used for R&D work. The Network Co-ordinator has decided that the IBM computers and the users on the HP Desk system must be able to talk to each other. To achieve this, the HP Desk Administrators in New York, London, and Liverpool must configure Foreign Service Connection (FSC) gateways on their HP Desk systems. The Network Co-ordinator has decided that it would be better to acquire copies of HP Office Connect to DISOSS for NEWYORK and LONDON and a copy of HP Office Connect to PROFS for LVRPOOL, than to write and implement FSC application programs to do the same job. Once the HP Desk Administrators for NEWYORK and LONDON have configured FSC gateways for their computers, the IBM mainframes used by the two Accounts departments can talk to each other through HP Desk. Also HP Desk users in the US Corporate Administration department can receive financial reports produced by the European Corporate Accounts department. HP Telex HP Telex allows HP Desk users to send message to telex subscribers and to receive telexes in their In Trays. In outgoing messages, HP Desk and Telex addresses can be mixed. As HP Desk Administrator, you can choose to allow users sending telexes to receive messages confirming the successful transmission of their telex in their In Trays, or you may restrict them to receiving requested acknowledgments. If you choose the latter, the acknowledgment is restricted to RECEIVED (for instance the message has been successfully transmitted to the correct telex number). In either case, users will be informed if a message is not delivered to an addressee's telex number. If you want to restrict the use of HP Telex, you can configure specific departments as HP Telex users. Alternatively, you can create an HP Telex department called HP Desk which will allow any HP Desk user to use HP Telex. See Chapter 11 and the Administrator's Guides to HP Telex manual for further details. In our example, the Pharaoh Company's Corporate Headquarters in New York regularly sends telexes to an advertising agency who handle the promotion of their products. As the company was setting up an HP Desk network, they decided to take this opportunity to acquire HP Telex and provide HP Desk users with an integrated connection to the international telex network. Care was taken to avoid any infringement of telecommunications authority regulations. HP Telex was installed on NEWYORK and the HP Desk Administrator configured an FSC gateway to it. Initially access to HP Telex would be restricted to to the Administration department. That is only the mailnode USCORP/AD would be configured as an HP Telex department. HP Desk Administrators at the other Pharaoh sites would check with their national telecommunications authorities to ascertain to what extent, if any they might access the telex networks through HP Desk and its HP Telex gateway in New York. If there weren't any problems, HP Telex would be installed at further sites.