Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter for SNA is a domains-based product that provides bi-directional connectivity between Oracle Tuxedo clients or servers and mainframe applications. The mainframe applications may use Customer Information Control System/Extended System Architecture (CICS TS) and Information Management System (IMS) implicit LU6.2, or any IBM-supported Application Program-to-Program Communication (APPC) or CICS TS interface.The following new feature is available in Version 12c Release 1 of the Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter for SNA product:For more information, see "Multi-byte Character Set (MBCS) Support" in Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter for SNA Users Guide.For more information, see "Channel/Container Support in Inbound DPL" in Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter for SNA Users Guide and "CICS/ESA DPL to ATMI Request/Response Server for Channel/Container" in Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter for SNA Reference Guide.SNA gateway uses crmretrc on open systems to retrieve trace from CRM. You can use crmretrc from any machine located on the same TCP/IP network when it is running the CRM server.For more information, see "crmretrc" and "CRM" in Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter for SNA CRM Administration Guide.
Note: For more information, see "Configurations for Customized Call ID Support" in Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter for SNA Users Guide and "Call Path" in Oracle Tuxedo System and Applications Monitor Plus Console Users Guide.Table 1 provides a list of Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter for SNA Gateway supported platforms.
Note: 32-bit Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter for SNA can run on a 64-bit machine. However, it must run on a 32-bit version of Oracle Tuxedo. It cannot run on a 64-bit version of Oracle Tuxedo.Table 2 provides a list of CRM supported platforms and stacks.
Table 2 CRM Supported Platforms Table 3 provides a list of IBM host software supported by Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter for SNA.
Table 3 Supported Mainframe Software This section describes known problems from the prior release of the Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter for SNA that have been fixed with the current release of the Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter for SNA software. Table 4 lists a bug number for each problem.
Table 4 Fixed Problems