• APPN Architecture of Record and other SNA Architecture documents
• Network Management and DLSw documents
• CIW documents
• White papers
• AIW session index

AIW documents are available in different online formats. Most are available from the AIW ftp site or the OS/390 Internet Library. Many of these documents are also available on various CD-ROMs associated with particular products that implement these technologies and architectures.

Architecture Documents	formats
APPN Architecture Reference (SC30-3422-04)	Book, html
APPN Branch Extender Architecture Reference Version 1.1 (BRANCH-06 / SV40-0129-01)	PDF (476KB), html, other formats
APPN Dependent LU Requester Architecture Reference Version 1.5 (DLUR10 / SV40-1010-04)	PDF (632 KB), html, other formats
APPN Extended Border Node Architecture Reference Version 1.0 (EBN8 / SV40-0128-00) (includes HPR Border Node and Interior Border Node)	PDF, (863 KB) html, other formats
APPN High Performance Routing Architecture Reference Version 4.0 (HPR11 / SV40-1018-04) (includes APPN HPR Extensions for ATM Networks, Multi-Link TGs, IP Networks, and ARB enhancements)	PDF (1437 KB), html, other formats
CPI-C Reference Version 2.1 (SC26-4399-08)	html
CPI-C Specifcation Version 2.1 (SC31-6180-02)	html, PostScript
SAA CPI Resource Recovery Reference (SC31-6821-01)	html
SNA File Services Reference (SC31-6807-02)	html
SNA Formats (GA27-3136-20)	PDF (1712 KB), html, other formats
SNA Guide to Publications (GC30-3438-02)	html
SNA LU 6.2 Reference Peer Protocols (SC31-6808-02) (merged original -2 & Chapter 13 addition)	html
SNA/Management Services Alert Implementation Guide (GC31-6809-00)	html
SNA/MS Formats (GC31-8302-02)	PDF (2994 KB), html, other formats
SNA Management Services Reference (SC30-3346-05)	html
SNA Sync Point Services Architecture Reference (SC31-8134-00)	html
SNA Technical Overview (GC30-3073-04)	html
SNA Transaction Programmer's Reference Manual For LU Type 6.2 (SC30-3084-05)	html
Addenda (Architecture changes that have not yet been published in one of the Architecture Documents)	Book, html, PostScript

• Many of these documents are available from the AIW FTP site. The table entry indicates some of the available formats. To view PDF files, get Adobe® Reader®. The FTP server on ftp.software.ibm.com/networking has several document repositories, including AIW, APPC/APPN, and CIW, all described below.
• Most of these documents can be viewed and searched online via the IBM BookManager BookServer on the OS/390 Internet Library, specifically for this table, the Networking Architectures Overview Bookshelf.
• The DLSw standard and several of the APPN and DLSw MIBs are published as IETF RFCs. If there is an RFC listed in this table, it is the latest, "official" version of the document. Other entries are the official AIW architecture document only if there is no RFC.
• The IBM Publcations Center also has online documents. Some documents here can be viewed if you have a subscription, and others are available to the general public.

The AIW maintains a file server, ftp.software.ibm.com/networking, for a document library of materials contributed by its members. This library includes documents which describe the architecture of record, proposed extensions to the architecture, meeting minutes, member lists, mail logs for the electronic mail exploders, and much more. You can use anonymous FTP to get these materials from the /pub/standards/aiw directory. You can also preview these materials here.

ftp.software.ibm.com/networking also has CIW materials of interest. You can use anonymous FTP to get these materials from the /pub/standards/ciw directory. You can also preview these materials here.

The joint Frame Relay Forum/AIW white paper is now available at the AIW FTP and Frame Relay Forum Web sites. Quoting from the white paper's Introduction,

This white paper is intended to assist those who wish to consider Frame Relay as a transmission protocol for their SNA data traffic. The document gives an overview of the issues to be considered and decisions to be made. The intent of the document is to provide a high level overview that can be used as a starting point to focus on issues of particular concern ... the paper gives an overview of the SNA market and a brief history of the SNA technologies. The paper briefly describes each of the SNA technologies highlighting the distinguishing features. The document then goes through the parts of SNA that interact with frame relay and the standards formats used to transport SNA over frame relay. Finally, the document discusses the issues significant to SNA traffic and how these can be addressed when using frame relay.

To look at a particular online document, you can use the tables on the this page. This page should be complete, but if you don't find an online document there, you should also search the online libraries themselves for the particular title of interest.

Most of the documents are published using IBM BookManager, so they may be available in several different formats. There are Web sites, such as the IBM Networking, IBM OS/390 Internet Library, and IBMLink sites, which have installed IBM BookManager BookServer, so that BookManager document scan be viewed using a Web browser.

Have you ever stared at your bookshelf stocked with more than a dozen AIW meeting binders and tried to remember which handout or document was in which binder? Help has arrived in the form of the AIW session index page. Thanks go to Jim Cobban of Nortel for providing this index.

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