Binary synchronous communications

(BSC) is a data communications line protocol that uses a standard set of transmission control characters and control character sequences to send binary-coded data over a communications line. Binary synchronous communications equivalence link (BSCEL) support is the intersystem communications function (ICF) support on the iSeries™ system that provides binary synchronous communications with a remote system or device. BSCEL also supplies online and batch communications between application programs on different BSC systems. iSeries application programs can be written in the Integrated Language Environment® (ILE) C/400*, ILE COBOL/400*, ILE FORTRAN/400*, or ILE RPG/400* programming languages.

For more information, see the book BSC Equivalence Link Programming (SC41–5445).