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Communication Components

To perform distributed security processing, CA Top Secret relies on CAICCI (Common Communication Interface), a component of CA-CIS. These components are CAIENF (Event Notification Facility) and CAICCI (Common Communication Interface).

CAICCI is a common communications facility that enables CA‑Top Secret secured nodes to communicate with one another. It provides the VTAM facilities needed to transmit and receive TSS commands.

Note: The word node, when used in this chapter, refers to the unique identifier (SYSID) that is assigned to that node when it is defined using CAICCI. A node is not the same as the VTAM APPLID, although you can use the same names. See the CA Common Services for VM documentation set for more information about defining nodes.