Re: DLSw Test Program? (Was OSA-Express2 and SNA Pcomm - loss of connectivity)
Timothy Thanks for the information. Please see my response to Andrew. Chris Mason - Original Message - From: Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 7:16 AM Subject: Re: DLSw Test Program? (Was OSA-Express2 and SNA Pcomm - loss of connectivity) OS2PING is very handy indeed. (There's also OS/2's NETPING, which does much the same for NetBIOS connections.) You could boot into OS/2 and run this command. OS2PING (and NETPING) are not installed automatically, but you can find them contained in the MPTSAPLT.ZIP file. This file is located somewhere within the MPTS (Multiprotocol Transport Services) feature of OS/2. Simply unzip what you need. I would imagine today's modern eComStation still has this, and conceivably you could make a bootable CD to run it. I've found a not-quite-as-handy Linux substitute, described here: http://www.gcom.com/linux/lis/cmds.html#ldltest See the second ldltest example for the relevant syntax. Likewise, you may be able to use this from a bootable Linux CD and thus make it a near-universal troubleshooting tool from a particular workstation. I haven't found a real equivalent for Windows, but perhaps someone else has an idea. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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
Re: DLSw Test Program? (Was OSA-Express2 and SNA Pcomm - loss of connectivity)
Andrew Thank you for the kind offer. I was seeking such a program out because it seemed like such a tool would be handy in helping another contributor, Sheila Weissborn, with an apparently DLSw problem she was reporting. Having been reminded that DLSw owes a lot to Cisco, I might expect Cisco to offer such a test program. Chris Mason - Original Message - From: Andrew McLaren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:14 AM Subject: Re: DLSw Test Program? (Was OSA-Express2 and SNA Pcomm - loss of connectivity) Hi Chris, There is (was?) a Microsoft utility called DLCPing. I think it was included on the CD-ROM in Microsoft's HIS 2000 Resource Kit (long out of print, and now very difficult to obtain). DLCPing is also occasionally given to customers by Microsoft PSS, to use in troubleshooting SNA connectivity problems. As far as I know, DLCPing is licensed software and not freely distributable; I suspect some of the code was licensed from a well-known third party vendor of SNA software (who is not IBM). Otherwise I'd email you a copy. But if you can track down a copy of the old HIS 2000 Resource Kit, you might find a copy of DLCPing to use. Regards, Andrew McLaren Sydney, Australia -- 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
Re: DLSw Test Program? (Was OSA-Express2 and SNA Pcomm - loss of connectivity)
Hi Chris, There is (was?) a Microsoft utility called DLCPing. I think it was included on the CD-ROM in Microsoft's HIS 2000 Resource Kit (long out of print, and now very difficult to obtain). DLCPing is also occasionally given to customers by Microsoft PSS, to use in troubleshooting SNA connectivity problems. As far as I know, DLCPing is licensed software and not freely distributable; I suspect some of the code was licensed from a well-known third party vendor of SNA software (who is not IBM). Otherwise I'd email you a copy. But if you can track down a copy of the old HIS 2000 Resource Kit, you might find a copy of DLCPing to use. Regards, Andrew McLaren Sydney, Australia -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Monday, 3 September 2007 15:17 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DLSw Test Program? (Was OSA-Express2 and SNA Pcomm - loss of connectivity) OS2PING is very handy indeed. (There's also OS/2's NETPING, which does much the same for NetBIOS connections.) You could boot into OS/2 and run this command. OS2PING (and NETPING) are not installed automatically, but you can find them contained in the MPTSAPLT.ZIP file. This file is located somewhere within the MPTS (Multiprotocol Transport Services) feature of OS/2. Simply unzip what you need. I would imagine today's modern eComStation still has this, and conceivably you could make a bootable CD to run it. I've found a not-quite-as-handy Linux substitute, described here: http://www.gcom.com/linux/lis/cmds.html#ldltest See the second ldltest example for the relevant syntax. Likewise, you may be able to use this from a bootable Linux CD and thus make it a near-universal troubleshooting tool from a particular workstation. I haven't found a real equivalent for Windows, but perhaps someone else has an idea. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.13.2/985 - Release Date: 02/09/2007 16:32 -- 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
DLSw Test Program? (Was OSA-Express2 and SNA Pcomm - loss of connectivity)
Also posted in IBMTCP-L. - A week or so ago I requested if anyone knew of a, typically Windows-based, test program which would allow an 802.2 Test frame to be sent with a specified MAC and SAP address in order to test connectivity over, generally, DLSw. Such a program exist(ed/s) in the OS/2 world and was called OS2PING. I am repeating the appeal - one would hope, more clearly - given that the original was buried in a mass of text in a well-advanced thread. Chris Mason -- 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
Re: DLSw Test Program? (Was OSA-Express2 and SNA Pcomm - loss of connectivity)
OS2PING is very handy indeed. (There's also OS/2's NETPING, which does much the same for NetBIOS connections.) You could boot into OS/2 and run this command. OS2PING (and NETPING) are not installed automatically, but you can find them contained in the MPTSAPLT.ZIP file. This file is located somewhere within the MPTS (Multiprotocol Transport Services) feature of OS/2. Simply unzip what you need. I would imagine today's modern eComStation still has this, and conceivably you could make a bootable CD to run it. I've found a not-quite-as-handy Linux substitute, described here: http://www.gcom.com/linux/lis/cmds.html#ldltest See the second ldltest example for the relevant syntax. Likewise, you may be able to use this from a bootable Linux CD and thus make it a near-universal troubleshooting tool from a particular workstation. I haven't found a real equivalent for Windows, but perhaps someone else has an idea. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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
