Re: Some more ethernet questions

[Philipp Rusch <Philipp.Rusch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Damn, Neil is always one step ahead,
I thought the sun is rising earlier with us in germany than in canada ?

:-), ... Philipp

Neil Palmer schrieb:

> Starting at V4R2 the STRTCP command automatically runs STRHOSTSVR.
> At V4R3 IBM were recommending that instead of adding STRTCP to the startup
> program, you add an autostart job entry to subsystem QSYSWRK using an IBM
> supplied job description:
> ADDAJE SBSD(QSYSWRK)  JOB(STRUPTCPIP)  JOBD(QSYS/QTOCSTRTCP)
>
> Starting with V5R1 TCP/IP startup is controlled via an IPL attribute
> (CHGIPLA).
>
> A quick way to see what TCP/HOST/NFS servers are started when TCP starts
> is to RUNQRY *NONE QATOCSTART
> You can use UPDDTA (or WRKDBF, etc.) to change the *YES/*NO values in that
> file if you want.  Make sure you keep the *YES/*NO in uppercase.
> The other way to change ALL the startup values requires use of OpsNav as
> not all can be set from CFGTCP, #20
>
> ...Neil
>
> Hello from germany,
>
> answers inline :
>
> Rosewood schrieb:
>
> > Thanks to a lot of help from you guys, all has been going well.  If any
> > of yall come through Wichita, KS some time (and im over 21 then) look me
> > up, Ill buy ya a beer.
> >
> > I have a few more questions.
> >
> >   1:  How do I get TCP/IP to run on IPL?  PS - The agents that use these
> > AS400s don't need nor use them for HTTP/POP/SMTP/FTP ETC servers - can
> > these different ones not be started up always as well ? (I think I got
> > that figured out from TCPADM screen).
>
> There is a startup program which is call when the system starts its
> controlling
> subsystems, this is done during a sucessful IPL procedure.
> The location/name of the program that is called is controlled by a system
> value
> (WRKSYSVAL  QSTRUPGM), the object defined there has to be a valid
> CL-PGM. There is an IBM-supplied template for this, which you can retrieve
> to have a starting point for your own self-made startup program.
> (RTVCLSRC QSYS/QSTRUP, I put this source on QGPL/QCLSRC(QSTRUP))
> I usually do NOT modify this and recompile, instead, I always leave the
> original
> from IBM in place (because of release changes) and in the first line of my
> own
> startup PGM  I do a CALL on this one to have the "IBM-things" done before
> I
> add on my "specials". Like this, you never loose modifications on an
> upgrade of
> your OS/400, you just have to change the sysval again ...
> How is TCPIP being started then ?
> For me the code in my QSTRUPTCP called PGM is looking like this
>
>     PGM
>     CALL (QSYS/QSTRUP)
>     MONMSG (CPF0000)
>     STRTCP
>     MONMSG (CPF0000)
>     STRHOSTSVR (RCDPCL *TCP)
>     MONMSG (CPF0000)
>     . . . .
>
>     MONMSG (CPF0000) is only to avoid any messages to keep the system from
> starting up correctly, because some job is waiting for an answer in
> QSYSOPR  ...
>
> HTH, greetings, Philipp Rusch
>
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