Greg Shirey wrote: > Fellow listers, > > We have some batch jobs that run early in the morning, create a file, > then FTP it to a server in our network. We had one of the jobs fail to > FTP, getting the message: > EZA2589E Connection to server interrupted or timed out. Initial > connection > > At that time, when we tried to PING the server, it timed out. Five > minutes later, we got a response back from the server, so the job reran > to success. > > This happened on and off all night, the server would be "PINGable" for a > while, then not. > > I perceived this as a server or router error, but the network guys say > no. They are able, during these times when the mainframe cannot get a > response to a PING, to successfully logon and FTP files to the server > from their PCs. > > So, my question to this esteemed group is what is there in the mainframe > IP environment could intermittently cause PING to fail? (And only to a > particular server - I set up a REXX to PING 5 servers, go to sleep for > 30 seconds, and do it for about 30 minutes. Only this server did not > respond to the PING.) > > We are running z/OS 1.7 on a 2086 using the OSA card for connection to > the network. > > Thanks for any feedback, > > Greg Shirey > Ben E. Keith Company > > > When the PING from the mainframe times out can you run a TRACERTE from that system to see if the problem is somewhere on the network?
-- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL ---- Riley: Find the next number in the sequence: 313, 331, 367, ...? what? The Doctor: 379. It's a sequence of happy primes, 379. Martha: Happy what? The Doctor: Just enter it! Riley: Are you sure? We only get one chance. The Doctor: Any number that reduces to one when you take the sum of the square of its digits and continue iterating until it yields 1 is a happy number, any number that doesn't, isn't. A happy prime is both happy and prime. ---- Doctor Who episode "42" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
