The IBM VSE target system must be configured to support TCP/IP communications software from CSI international, IBM, or Barnard Software, Inc.

For VSE installations, the only other setup step required is to concatenate the VSE TCP/IP library to the target CICS partition LIBDEF search list. For example, given the default VSE TCP/IP, CONNX and IBM Language Environment library names:

Before you install CONNX, we recommend that you verify the TCP/IP connectivity to your VSE system. To verify connectivity, run ping hostname, where hostname is the TCP/IP symbolic address or dotted numeric address.