TCPaccess is a software product which implements the TCP/IP protocol suite on IBM mainframe computers using the MVS operating system. The Internet Protocol Suite (commonly TCP/IP) is the set of Communications protocols used for the Internet and other similar networks International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology Mainframes (often colloquially referred to as Big Iron) are Computers used mainly by large organizations for critical applications typically bulk data Multiple Virtual Storage, more commonly called MVS, was the most commonly used Operating system on the System/370 and System/390 IBM It was developed in 1986 by Advanced Computer Communications under the name ACCES/MVS, and was the first commercial TCP/IP implementation for MVS mainframes. It is usually associated with Interlink Computer Sciences, which developed and marketed the product from 1990 until 1999, and is frequently referred to as "the Interlink stack". Interlink Computer Sciences, of Fremont California was a developer of hardware and software that allowed IBM Mainframe computers running the MVS operating
The product was marketed by Cisco Systems as Cisco IOS for S/390. Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating System) is the software used on the vast majority of Cisco Systems Routers and all current Cisco Network ESA/390 (Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 was introduced in September 1990 and is IBM 's last 31-bit -address/ 32-bit -data mainframe computing It is currently offered by Computer Associates as Unicenter TCPaccess Communications Server. CA Inc &mdash formerly Computer Associates Inc &mdash is a multinational Computer software corporation headquartered in Islandia New York.