Systems Network Architecture (SNA) is IBM's proprietary networking architecture, created in 1974. It is a complete protocol stack for interconnecting...
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Systems Application Architecture (SAA), introduced in 1987, is a set of standards for computer software developed by IBM. The SAA initiative was started...
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and to be connected to the central host mainframe, using IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA). Although its successor's role in distributed data processing...
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IBM i (the i standing for integrated) is an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems. It was originally released in 1988 as OS/400, as...
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the z900, in late 2000. Subsequent z/Architecture systems include the IBM z800, z990, z890, System z9, System z10, zEnterprise 196, zEnterprise 114,...
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IBM POWER is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by IBM. The name is an acronym for Performance Optimization...
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to IBM Z from IBM z Systems; the IBM Z family includes the newest model, the IBM z17, as well as the z16, z15, z14, and z13 (released under the IBM z Systems/IBM...
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Data-Link Switching (category Systems Network Architecture)
unroutable, non-IP based protocols such as IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) and NBF over an IP network. DLSw was initially documented in IETF RFC...
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international computer networking system deployed in the mid-1970s and still in current, though greatly diminished, use. It was developed inside IBM and provided...
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the IBM RS/6000 series and later Power and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System/370 mainframes, PS/2 personal computers, and the Apple Network Server...
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IBM Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPN) is an extension to the Systems Network Architecture (SNA) "that allows large and small computers to communicate...
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unit type 6.2 ) APPC was developed in 1982 as a component of IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA). Several APIs were developed for programming languages...
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IBM FlashSystem is a family of high-performance, flash-based storage systems that form part of the IBM Storage enterprise portfolio. The platform integrates...
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a family of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including the...
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Personal System/2 laptop IBM System/3 IBM System/4 Pi IBM Office System/6 IBM System/7 IBM System/23 IBM System/32 IBM System/34 IBM System/36 IBM System/38...
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commercial computers from IBM that were based on a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture. The RT PC uses IBM's proprietary ROMP microprocessor...
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simultaneously, multiprocessor refers to a hardware architecture that allows multiprocessing. Multiprocessor systems are classified according to how processor memory...
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Edward H. Sussenguth (category Systems Network Architecture)
and former IBM employee, known best for his work on Systems Network Architecture (SNA). He was also a contributor to the architecture of IBM's Advanced...
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Virtual Telecommunications Access Method (category Systems Network Architecture)
Telecommunications Access Method (VTAM) is the IBM subsystem that implements Systems Network Architecture (SNA) for mainframe environments. VTAM provides...
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Midrange computer (redirect from IBM Midrange Systems)
IBM favored the term "midrange computer" for their comparable, but more business-oriented systems. System/3 (1969) was the first IBM midrange system....
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channel connected to an IBM mainframe or linked via an SDLC (Synchronous Data Link Control) link. In the Systems Network Architecture (SNA) protocol these...
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File System (CIFS). In 1986, IBM announced client and server support for Distributed Data Management Architecture (DDM) for the System/36, System/38, and...
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IBM MQ. The products that are included in the MQ family are IBM MQ, IBM MQ Advanced, IBM MQ Appliance, IBM MQ for z/OS, and IBM MQ on IBM Cloud. IBM MQ...
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Extended Industry Standard Architecture (frequently known by the acronym EISA and pronounced "eee-suh") is a bus standard for IBM PC compatible computers...
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IBM mainframes are large computer systems produced by IBM since 1952. During the 1960s and 1970s, IBM dominated the computer market with the 7000 series...
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Micro Channel architecture, or the Micro Channel bus, is a proprietary 16- or 32-bit parallel computer bus publicly introduced by IBM in 1987 which was...
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the IBM PC, Amiga 2000 and Apple IIe have an open architecture supporting plug-in cards, whereas the Apple IIc computer has a closed architecture. Open...
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2022, IBM released Db2 13 for z/OS. "Data warehousing" was first mentioned in a 1988 IBM Systems Journal article entitled, "An Architecture for Business...
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on IBM Z, Linux on zSystems or zLinux is the collective term for the Linux operating system compiled to run on IBM mainframes, especially IBM Z / IBM zSystems...
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IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company. IBM Research is headquartered...
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