Legacy Applications

BARR/CHANNEL IN SDK

Connect your applications directly to the mainframe S/390® channel with ESCON or Bus & Tag

BARR/CHANNEL-IN SDK is a Software Development Kit (SDK) for fiber-optic ESCON® or parallel Bus & Tag channel solutions.

The BARR/CHANNEL-IN SDK supplies all of the hardware and software to enable PC-based server applications to be directly channel-attached to the mainframe. The applications that can implement and benefit from the product are those that require bi-directional, high-speed, mainframe-to-server data transfer capabilities.

The SDK provides software developers with the tools to build device drivers that emulate virtually any S/370 or S/390® channel-attached device. The SDK package includes sample source code and library files you can use to build a fully functional 3211 emulator. This source code serves as a starting point for developing virtually any device emulator.

		Features and Benefits
		Provides direct connection to the mainframe channel Supplies fast access to the mainframe Isolates the mainframe from the PC environment Includes sample code that serves as a starting point in development Increases throughput and decreases response times for applications Eliminates overhead on network resources Enables application throughput scalability by installing additional channel adapters Provides the fastest link for direct PC-to-mainframe access (with ESCON) that can dramatically improve your throughput and response times

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Requirements

Microsoft Windows

Minimum Software Components:

• Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft® NT Server 4.0 (Service Pack 3) or Microsoft NT Workstation

Minimum Hardware Components:

• Processor must support operating system and PCI bus

• Processor speed, storage and memory are user application dependent

Solaris

Minimum Software Components:

• Sun Solaris Operating System v2.5

Minimum Hardware Components:

• Processor must support operating system and PCI bus

• Processor speed, storage and memory are user application dependent

AIX

Minimum Software Components:

• IBM ® AIX v4.3

Minimum Hardware Components:

• Processor must support operating system and PCI bus

• Processor speed, storage and memory are user application dependent

Linux

Minimum Software Components:

• Suse Linux operating system v9.0, or

• OpenLinux v3.1.1

Minimum Hardware Components:

• Processor must support operating system and PCI bus

• Processor speed, storage and memory are user application dependent

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Environment

• PCI Rev 2.2 compliant adapter

• 32 bit data path

• Operates in 32 or 64 bit slots

• Operates in either 5 volt or 3.3 volt slots

• Functions in PCI-X slots

• Operates as a Bus Master when transferring data to and from memory

• EMI certified. Meets latest CE/FCC requirements

• Modes of operation: 4.5 and 3 Mbytes/sec Data Streaming and 1.5 Mbytes/sec Interlocked

• Dimensions: 4.2" X 5.75"

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