Planning for and Installing the Remote API Client on Windows

This chapter describes how to install the IBM Remote API Client on Windows, which enables a PC to run SNA applications without having a complete SNA stack installation on the PC. A Remote API Client on Windows can connect to one or more CS Linux servers (or CS/AIX servers) using a TCP/IP network.

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of CS Linux and the Remote API Clients, you are recommended to upgrade all the servers before upgrading the Remote API Clients. See Migrating from previous levels of CS Linux for more details.

Only 64-bit Windows operating systems are supported with the client distributed with CS Linux Version 7.1. Older CS Linux clients can continue to be used on 32-bit Windows operating systems with the CS Linux Version 7.1 server.

The interfaces provided by the IBM Remote API Client on Windows are broadly compatible with those provided by the IBM Personal Communications and Microsoft Host Integration Server products (the Windows Open Server Architecture or WOSA).

The IBM Remote API Client on Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) is an optional package that allows you to use the Remote API Client to develop application programs using the APPC, CPI-C, LUA, and CSV APIs. Refer to the appropriate programmer's reference guide for more information about these APIs. You do not need to install this package if the Remote API Client will be used only to run existing applications (not to develop new ones).