Abstract: A cable management system is provided having an associational device for providing information that uniquely identifies a cable of a cable-equipped system, the device being operatively coupled to the cable and an assembly for receiving information in a wireless manner from the associational device, the assembly being operable to correlate unique identifying information of the cable with a data element concerning a location. The associational device is a radio frequency identification tag.

Abstract: There is provided a connectivity scheme for heterogeneously coupling computer systems of dissimilar architectures, such as a client/server system to a mainframe system, using a high speed, low overhead protocol. The connection uses a channel-to-channel protocol, such as a Bus and Tag connection or ESC on connection. The scheme allows mainframe systems, particularly non-IBM and non-IBM plug compatible mainframes, to communicate with each other and with IBM and IBM plug compatible mainframes over the same high speed interfaces using large block sizes. Thus, the scheme provides non-IBM and non-IBM plug compatible mainframes to appear as peers in a channel-to-channel network.