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Transport-independent RPC (TI-RPC) is the latest version of RPC. It provides a method of separating the underlying protocol that is used at the network layer, providing a more seamless transition from one protocol to another. The only protocols that are currently available on the iSeries™ server are TCP and UDP.</p> </div> <div class="section"><p>Developing distributed applications across a network is a seamless task when using RPC. The primary targets are applications that gravitate more towards distributing the user interface or data retrieval.</p> </div> </div> <div> <ul class="ullinks"> <li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzaaxnetselect.htm">Network selection APIs</a></strong><br /> These APIs provide the means to choose the transport on which an application should run.</li> <li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzaaxaddress.htm">Name-to-address translation APIs</a></strong><br /> These APIs allow an application to obtain the address of a service or a specified host in a transport-independent manner.</li> <li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzaaxxdr.htm">eXternal Data Representation (XDR) APIs</a></strong><br /> These APIs allow RPC applications to handle arbitrary data structures, regardless of their different hosts' byte orders or structure layout conventions.</li> <li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzaaxauthentication.htm">Authentication APIs</a></strong><br /> These APIs provide authentication to the TI-RPC applications.</li> <li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzaaxtirpc2.htm">Transport Independent RPC (TI-RPC) APIs</a></strong><br /> These APIs provide a distributed application development environment by isolating the application from any specific transport feature. 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