Network communications under UNIX System Services
This topic discusses interprocess communication, including MVS™ Sockets for z/OS® UNIX and the X/Open Transport Interface (XTI) for z/OS UNIX and the internetworking involved.
Many products today supply a socket interface. The types of application
programming interfaces (APIs) for the sockets which will be covered
in this chapter are:
- X/Open Socket
- Berkeley Socket
Your z/OS UNIX XL C/C++ application program can take advantage of sockets or XTI to communicate with a related application (server or client).
The X/Open Transport Interface (XTI) defines an independent transport service interface that allows multiple users to communicate at the transport level of the OSI reference model. More information can be found at the end of this topic.