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Thank you for your submission. At this time, our support position for native SNA is strictly one of maintaining, and not enhancing. Across the industry support for native SNA connectivity is being deprecated, and movement is toward solutions that encapsulate and transport SNA application data over an IP network. In light of the industry direction we encourage you to consider alternatives to use of OSE, such as Enterprise Extender with OSA and/or Hipersockets. We would be happy to engage with you on discussion of such alternatives, and can also provide you with a contact that performs such migrations as a service engagement. Moving this request to Declined status.
At this time, our support position for native SNA is strictly one of maintaining, and not enhancing. Across the industry support for native SNA connectivity is being deprecated, and movement is toward solutions that encapsulate and transport SNA application data over an IP network. In light of the industry direction we encourage you to consider alternatives to use of OSE, such as Enterprise Extender with OSA and/or Hipersockets. We would be happy to engage with you on discussion of such alternatives, and can also provide you with a contact that performs such migrations as a service engagement
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - z Systems Hardware
Product - z Systems Hardware
Component - I/O and Networking
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - z Systems Hardware
Product - z Systems Hardware
Component - LAN (OSA Express, Hipersockets, RoCE)