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Appn network node optional features, High-performance routing – IBM SC30-3865-04 User Manual

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APPN Network Node Optional Features

In addition to the base APPN Architecture functions, the router also implements the
following option set towers and new functions:

087

Garbage Collection Enhancements

1002

Adjacent Link Station name

1007

Parallel TGs

1012

LU name = CP name

1016

Extended Border Node

1061

Prerequisites for SS Extensions for NNS Support

1063

SS Extensions NNS Support

1067

Dependent LU Requester

1071

Generalized ODAI Usage

1101

Preloaded Directory Cache

1107

Central Resource Registration (of LUs)

1116

Network Node Server support for DLUS-Served LU registration

1119

Report Branch Topology to a Manager

1120

Branch Awareness

1121

Branch Extender

1200

Tree Caching and TG Caching

1400

High-Performance Routing (HPR)

1401

Rapid Transport Protocol (RTP)

1402

Control Flows over RTP

1405

HPR Border Node

Node performance tuning

Node service traces

Accounting and node statistics collection

High-Performance Routing

HPR is an enhancement to APPN architecture that provides better performance
over high speed, low error rate links using existing hardware. HPR replaces the
normal APPN intermediate session routing (ISR) with a Network Control Layer
(NCL) containing a new type of source routing function called automatic network
routing (ANR). The complete HPR route is contained in the ANR packet allowing
intermediate routing nodes to route the packets with less processing overhead and
storage.

HPR also eliminates the error recovery and flow control (session-level pacing)
procedures for each link between nodes and moves the error recovery and
flow/congestion control procedures to the end-points of an HPR connection. A
transport layer using a new error recovery procedure called Rapid Transport

APPN

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