NTS does not require definitions of the network or VTAM environment in which it is executing. All such knowledge is derived by NTS through standard access method interfaces. NTS panels display the network ID for the host VTAM under which NTS runs.
Because NTS operates in SNA Network Interconnection (SNI) environments, all NTS resource names are qualified by the network name (that is, both the resource name and the network name are required to identify an SNA resource), and alias names are fully supported. The network in which NTS is executing is always the assumed default. Therefore, the use of network qualified names by NTS in a single network environment (or in the default network in an SNI environment) is totally transparent to the user.