Planning for removal of support of adapters and configurations for releases following V7R3 of IBM i

Removal of commands supporting native SNA adapters:

Software support for these adapters will be removed. Hardware support for these adapters was withdrawn in prior releases. Software alternatives, such as Enterprise Extender for SNA, do not support these configurations. Affected configurations include SNA FAX, Finance, Retail and Remote workstation configurations.

Removal of support for DDI, Token-Ring, Wireless, Frame Relay, SDLC, TDLC, and X.25 protocols:

Software support for these protocols is being removed. Hardware support for these protocols was withdrawn in prior releases.

Removal of Network Interfaces configurations:

Software support for these adapters is being removed. Hardware support for these adapters was withdrawn in prior releases.

Removal of AnyNet® configurations:

Software support for AnyNet will formally be removed.

AnyNet was no longer supported in V7R1. Users should start to move to Enterprise Extender before upgrading to the new release.

For information on moving from AnyNet to Enterprise Extenders view the topic in the Knowledge Center: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzajt/rzajtanytoee.htm