You can create a DDM file that uses SNA as the communication protocol
for connecting with the remote system.
Each DDM file that uses SNA contains the following information.
DDM file value and description of values
- DDM file name
- The name of the DDM file on the source system that is used to identify
a specific remote file.
- Remote file name
- The actual file name of the remote file; that is, the name by which it
is known on the target server. (For a target System/36™,
this is the file label of the remote file.)
- Remote location name
- The name of the remote location where the remote file exists. This remote
location name provides the data link to the target server (remote location)
by using APPN/APPC, over which a DDM conversation is established when this
DDM file is accessed.
- Device
- The name of the device on the source server used to communicate with the
remote location.
- Local location name
- The name of the local location. This is the name by which the target server
knows your server. Your server can consist of more than one local location.
- Mode
- The name of the mode to be used to communicate between the local location
and remote location.
- Remote network ID
- The remote network ID to be used with the remote location. This value
further qualifies the remote location name. Two locations with the same remote
location name but different remote network IDs are viewed as two distinctly
separate locations.
- Type
- The type of connection to be used to communicate with the remote location
when the DDM conversation is established with the remote server. To create
a DDM file that uses an SNA connection, specify *SNA. This is the default
type.