The IMS-SLU P network

The three major elements of an IMS-SLU P network are the controller and the terminals executing the remote program, the communication link, the central processor executing the host IMS system.

Each element includes programming to perform a part of the total data processing performed by the system. IMS resides in the host processor and communicates with an application program in the SLU P system's controller through the communication link. The controller's application program monitors the terminals attached to the controller.

IMS supports 4700 terminals attached to an IBM® 4701/4702 Finance Communication Controller. IMS supports the IBM 4730 Personal Banking Machine, both directly attached to a 37x5 as a SLU P and attached to a 4701/4702 as part of the SLU P system.

Related reading: For a list of 4700 terminals, see IBM 4700 Finance Communication System: System Summary.

IMS also supports 3600 terminals attached to either an IBM 3602 or 4701/4702 as part of a Finance system. (IMS does not distinguish between 3600- and 4700-series terminals.)

Examples of other IBM products that connect to IMS with the SLU P protocols are the Series/1, the IBM 3650, and the IBM 8100.

Each of these terminals, or workstations, can be defined to IMS as a component of the appropriate SLU P system using the COMPT or ICOMPT keyword on the TERMINAL macro statement.