They should be ending as well. Make sure PTF's are current. CFGTCP
option 3 - change attributes and compare the two systems. Pay
particular attention to the TCP Keep alive. Mine is at 10 minutes.
Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Galgano
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:58 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: System running out of ports
I have a customer with a 170 that has been running and running for
years.
We rarely touch it.
In the past 2 weeks I have received a few calls about printers that have
stopped working. In looking at the spool job's joblog, I can see
message that the system has run out of port for LPD/LPR printing.
Further inspection of the NETSTAT (option 3) screen indicates that there
are literally thousands of jobs initiated from the iSeries to the
printer in a TIMED-WAIT status, with idle times measured in days.
In looking at other iSeries boxes, it appears that for every spool file
send from the iSeries to a printer, the iSeries opens a new connection
with a local port to port 515 on the printer, sends the data, goes idle,
and after about 60-90 seconds, the connection disappears.
So, what is my customer with the 170's connections not ending
gracefully????
BTW, the client is at V5R1.
Carl J. Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
770-422-2995
F: 678-881-9224
http://www.ediconsulting.com
530 Roselane Street
Marietta, GA 30060
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