Brilliant feedback - thanks - it's good to see that this has blossomed in to something that is at-least potentially useful to more folk than just myse lf.
Just to update my personal progress, I've successfully built the second stack and then, because I was able to now access the system through the second stack, I've been able to configure a VSWITCH using what was the primary stack's OSA interface and get the primary stack running through t he VSWITCH. Happiness. I didn't know about the OSA's internal stack - sounds like a useful capability but not something that I'm personally in a position to current ly take advantage of. The same goes for SYSG access - not feasible on my current administrative setup but I'm glad that it's been mentioned. Dumb question: If one logs on to the OSA's internal stack, what does the SCP actually see? Is it a local 3270 at some predefined address? I'd certain ly be interested in learning a little more about this capability - could you maybe point me at the, 'proper' documentation? I have a small puzzlement in that I can't ping either of my stacks from t he other ... I guess that I'm going to be learning a little more about the intricacies of TCP/IP and subnetting in order to get to the bottom of why THAT is the case - but not today, the sun is shining and the dogs are telling me that it's a good day for a walk :-) Again, thanks for all the input. Jeff
