Re: TCP/IP shutdown or crash

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Only time we end tcp is while preparing to IPL.  However, that is one way 
of reducing the number of IFS locks when saving the IFS. 

Speaking as a customer who purchased an iSeries based paging system to 
only have them blame their problems on one of the major paging companies, 
I suggest that you modify your applications to handle tcp/ip 'exceptions'.

Crashing unexpectedly?  Not that I am aware of.  Sounds like a call to IBM 
for me.  Perhaps they are having battles with MSF/SMTP and instead of 
doing ENDTCPSVR *SMTP they choose ENDTCP instead?  It's easier to get 
permission to IPL than it is to ENDTCP.  They are just as drastic here.

Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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Do you ever have a need to shutdown TCP/IP but keep the rest of the system
up (including applications) and if so, why?

Do you ever have TCP/IP crash?

I have a customer that says sometimes they need to shutdown TCP/IP and 
that
sometimes it crashes unexpectedly. This creates some "challenges" for one 
of
our applications that is TCP/IP dependent.

My stance has been that needing to shut TCP/IP down while keeping the rest
of the system up seems very unusual to me, and that having it "crash" is
unheard of and should be reported to IBM immediately.

What do you guys think?

FYI, I'm talking V5R2 here, not some old release.

Anybody?

Thanks,
-Marty
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