(ACF/NCP, usually called just "NCP") The primary
SNA network control program, one of the
ACF products.
ACF/NCP resides in the
communications controller and
interfaces with ACF/VTAM in the
host processor to control
network communications.
NCP can also communicate with multiple hosts using local channel or remote links (
PU type 5 or PU type 4) thus
enabling cross
domain application communication. In a
multiple
mainframe SNA environment, any terminal or
application can access any other application on any host using
cross domain logon.
See also
Emulator program.