Client/Server (Peer) Connections

Personal Communications provides APPN® end node support for workstations, allowing them to communicate more flexibly with other systems in the network.

When your workstation is defined as an APPN® end node, an APPN® network node server provides the following directory and routing services for your workstation:
  • Intermediate session routing
  • Directory services
  • Topology and route selection services
Using Personal Communications, you can establish client/server connections to a variety of computers and to workstations running Windows 7 and later versions. Another option is to connect the computers to a workstation running Communications Server. Available SNA client/server connection types are:
  • LAN via IEEE 802.2
  • Synchronous Data Link Control
  • SNA-over-Async
  • AnyNet® SNA over TCP/IP
  • Hayes AutoSync
  • X.25
  • OEM Deep adapter
  • Enterprise Extender