1 APPC Application Suite for Solaris Programs

This chapter provides an overview of the applications provided in the APPC Application Suite. You use these application programs to send and receive files, simplify network naming, check connectivity, execute commands on remote workstations, and send messages from one workstation to another. This chapter also explains how to configure your system to run these applications.

1.1 What Is APPC Application Suite?

APPC Application Suite for Solaris is a set of command-line programs that communicate over APPC sessions. They use independent LU 6.2 protocols to communicate with similar applications running on other nodes in SNA networks. Each application comprises two programs: a source program and a target program.

APPC Application Suite contains the following:

ACOPY (APPC COPY)
AFTP (APPC File Transfer Protocol)
ANAME (APPC Name Server)
APING (APPC Ping)
AREXEC (APPC Remote EXECution)
ATELL (APPC TELL)

The rest of this chapter describes how to configure your system to run APPC Application Suite. The subsequent chapters describe the programs in detail.