Enterprise Extender is a networking architecture that allows Systems Network Architecture (SNA) applications to run over Internet Protocol (IP) networks using High Performance Routing (HPR). This is the preferred way to run SNA applications over IP networks with communications input/output adapters (IOAs), such as Gigabit Ethernet, since these IOAs do not require an input/output processor (IOP). Communications adapters that do not use an IOP do not support SNA, therefore, Enterprise Extender is required to run SNA over these adapters. IBM® recommends that Enterprise Extender be used in place of AnyNet®.
Set up the Enterprise Extender environment
To configure HPR to run over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, you need to do these tasks:
