Prerequisites - CONNX for VSAM-VSE

The IBM VSE target system must be configured to support TCP/IP communications software from either CSI international, or from IBM. Refer to the following links:

 

http://www.e-vse.com/

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zvse/products/tcpip.html

 

CONNX for VSAM-VSE also supports the Barnard Software, Inc. TCP/IP connectivity stack. Refer to the following link for more information:

http://www.bsiopti.com/

 

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:

 

// LIBDEF *,SEARCH=(CNXVVRR.RUNLIB,               X

    PRD2.TCPIP,                                   X

    PRD2.CONFIG,PRD1.BASED,PRD1.BASE,PRD2.PROD,   X

    PRD2.SCEECICD,PRD2.SCEECICS,PRD2.SCEEBASD,    X

    PRD2.SCEEBASE,PRD2.DBASE),PERM  

 

Verifying TCP/IP Connectivity

 

Before you install CONNX on your VSAM server, we recommend that you verify the TCP/IP connectivity to your VSE system. To verify connectivity:

  1. Open a Command Prompt window.

  2. On the task bar, click Start and then click Run

  3. Type or select:

ping hostname

where hostname is the TCP/IP symbolic address or dotted numeric address.

 

A successful ping (connectivity) will generate output in the command window similar to the following:

 

Pinging 123.123.123.012 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 123.123.123.012: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=63

Reply from 123.123.123.012: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=63

Reply from 123.123.123.012: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=63

Reply from 123.123.123.012: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=63

Ping statistics for 123.123.123.012:

  Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

  Minimum = 0ms, Maximum =  10ms, Average =  2ms