On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:34:56 -0400, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>z/VM 5.2 is limited to 128 sessions, but as Ray alludes, you need the te st >fix for still-open APAR PK51954 (SSL server crashes when multiple >connections are active). > >z/VM 5.3 has been tested with 2000 sessions using the beta version that >contains fixes for the follwing still-open APARs: > PK52298 - SSL Server Connection Limit Relief > PK53928 - SSLADMIN Command Updates for SSL Connection Limit Relief > PK53932 - TCP/IP Server Updates for SSL Connection Limit Relief >The 2000 sessions is not an architected limit, but just the highest numb er >we've tested. These fixes will not be back-ported to z/VM 5.2. > >Anyone who is thinking about using the SSL server on z/VM should touch >base with Support to get the fixes for these. Folks using the SSL serve r >appliance from Sine Nomine should get in touch with them for updates. > >Alan Altmark >z/VM Development >IBM Endicott >======================== ========================= ========== ============== We have the beta code running. The problem is that the beta also requires a new version of TCPIP MODULE. Every time we want to install TCPIP service, we have to ask for a new copy of TCPIP MODULE. Doing this on 20 systems gets to be rather time-consuming. (And I 'm not even the guy who has to do it.) It would really help if IBM would make this code GA or at least give us s ome idea WHEN it is going to be available. And yes, we have no problems with the z/VM 5.2.0 version. We don't actual ly have 126 concurrent users (our peak is 90 so far). But the 5.3.0 version has other problems t hat are fixed in the beta. Occasionally screens that are regularly updated, such as ESAMON or NETSTA T INTERVAL will simply hang. We also had TCPIP decide to bounce SSLSERV, with an outage t o users of TN3270. (Known problem, fixed in a new version of the beta.) Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com
