Are you sure, that you want to connet a z/OS to an Layer2 VSWITCH? Does z/OS not need an Layer3 ?
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Neale Ferguson Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 5:07 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS Guest not activating OSA connection Yes, there's the following statement in the SYSTEM CONFIG: MODIFY VSWITCH VSWITCH2 GRANT ZOS19 There's a NICDEF statement in the user directory entry, and the Q VSWITCH VSWITCH2 DET below shows the guest connecting. On 8/10/10 11:03 AM, "Mark Pace" <pacemainl...@gmail.com> wrote: Has the z/OS guest been Granted access? When you logon onto the guest do you see the virtual nic being created and connecting to the vswitch? On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Neale Ferguson <ne...@sinenomine.net> wrote: VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWITCH2 Type: VSWITCH Connected: 3 Maxconn: INFINITE PERSISTENT RESTRICTED ETHERNET Accounting: OFF VLAN Unaware MAC address: 02-00-00-00-00-02 State: Ready IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8 Isolation Status: OFF Portname: ADM1ETP RDEV: 1340.P00 Controller: DTCVSW2 VDEV: 1340 VSWITCH Connection: RX Packets: 13 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 TX Packets: 410 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 RX Bytes: 1299 TX Bytes: 58526 Device: 1340 Unit: 000 Role: DATA vPort: 0001 Index: 0001 Unicast IP Addresses: 172.17.16.5 MAC: 08-00-20-D9-99-58 Remote : : Adapter Owner: ZOS19 NIC: 0400.P00 Name: UNASSIGNED RX Packets: 0 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 TX Packets: 0 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 RX Bytes: 0 TX Bytes: 0 Device: 0402 Unit: 002 Role: DATA vPort: 0066 Index: 0066
