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CAICCI and TCP/IP

CAICCI provides robust TCP/IP support, and this protocol can be used to efficiently connect a wide variety of platforms and applications. Mainframes, PCs, and UNIX systems can all be inter-connected, using TCP/IP.

Be aware of the following:

• If you are using TCP/IP as your communications protocol, a mainframe TCP/IP product must be installed in addition to the base CAICCI component. Currently, CA TCPAccess Communications Server and IBM TCP/IP products are supported for z/OS.
• CAICCI utilizes TCP/IP using one or more separate server address spaces to coordinate TCP/IP processing for CAICCI.
• The CCITCP server task uses TCP/IP to support mainframe-to-PC connections and is required for CA DRAS.
• Use the appropriate client/server protocol parameter, depending on the vendor for TCPIP or C runtime, as described in the CA Common Services documentation.