You must activate the BDT SNA manager if:

• You are doing a cold start of BDT
• You are doing a warm or hot start of BDT and the BDT SNA manager was not active when BDT terminated
• The BDT SNA manager has been canceled with a BDT C,SNA,NODE=ALL command.

If you aren’t sure whether the BDT SNA manager is active or if any sessions have already been established, use

• prefix S,SNA,STATUS,LIST

to display the status of the BDT SNA manager and a list of all active sessions.

Activate the BDT SNA manager with the BDT command

• prefix X,SNA