SAP AS ABAP Administration · Internet Communication (ICF/ICM/ITS)

Inside the Internet Communication Manager (ICM), which thread actually accepts an incoming TCP/IP connection, and which one does the request/response work — and why does mixing them up misread a saturated ICM?

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