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IBM Systems Application Architecture

Systems Application Architecture (SAA), introduced in 1987, is a set of standards for computer software developed by IBM. The SAA initiative was started in 1987 under the leadership of Earl Wheeler, the "Father of SAA". The intent was to implement SAA in IBM operating systems including MVS, OS/400 and OS/2. AIX—IBM's version of the UNIX operating…

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Common communications services (CCS)

Advanced Program-to-Program CommunicationsLU6.2Systems Network ArchitecturePU2.1Peer-to-peer
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IBM Systems Application Architecture

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