Network communications with DAE 1.0

IBM´s Distributed Automation Edition, (DAE) is a software platform that provides an application programmer with a set of services to be used in developing applications. The communication system (CS/2) provides the application programmer a base on which applications for a distributed manufacturing operation can be developed and integrated into a consistent enterprise. The LAN communication services provided in the CS/2 feature of DAE are described. CS/2 provides a comprehensive set of services that allows developers to configure a system specifically to their needs. It supplies the tools for managing data, devices, and resources in a distributed integrated environment. All services are configurable to meet the operational requirements. CS/2 provides an application program, interface for obtaining services, that relieve application developers of the need to concern themselves with details of many unique communication protocols and hardware interfaces. Through the use of control blocks, CS/2 binds logical resource names to the physical destinations. This provides network transparency to the application programmer