IBM z/OS V2R2 Communications Server TCP/IP Implementation Volume 1: Base Functions, Connectivity, and Routing

An IBM Redbooks publication

Published 30 November 2016

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ISBN-10: 0738442097
ISBN-13: 9780738442099
IBM Form #: SG24-8360-00
(556 pages)

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Authors: Bill White, Octavio Ferreira, Teresa Missawa, Teddy Sudewo

Abstract

For more than 50 years, IBM® mainframes have supported an extraordinary portion of the world’s computing work, providing centralized corporate databases and mission-critical enterprise-wide applications. IBM z™ Systems, the latest generation of the IBM distinguished family of mainframe systems, has come a long way from its IBM System/360 heritage. Likewise, its IBM z/OS® operating system is far superior to its predecessors in providing, among many other capabilities, world-class and state-of-the-art support for the TCP/IP internet protocol suite.

TCP/IP is a large and evolving collection of communication protocols that is managed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), an open, volunteer organization. Because of its openness, the TCP/IP protocol suite has become the foundation for the set of technologies that form the basis of the internet. The convergence of IBM mainframe capabilities with internet technology, connectivity, and standards (particularly TCP/IP) is dramatically changing the face of information technology and driving requirements for even more secure, scalable, and highly available mainframe TCP/IP implementations.

The IBM z/OS Communications Server TCP/IP Implementation series provides understandable, step-by-step guidance for enabling the most commonly used and important functions of z/OS Communications Server TCP/IP.

This IBM Redbooks® publication is for people who install and support z/OS Communications Server. It introduces z/OS Communications Server TCP/IP, describes the system resolver, and shows the implementation of global and local settings for single and multi-stack environments. It presents implementation scenarios for TCP/IP base functions, connectivity, routing, and subplexing.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM Communications Server for z/OS IP
Chapter 2. The resolver
Chapter 3. Base functions
Chapter 4. Connectivity
Chapter 5. Routing
Chapter 6. Virtual LAN and virtual MAC support
Chapter 7. Shared Memory Communications
Chapter 8. Sysplex subplexing
Chapter 9. Diagnosis
Chapter 10. IBM z/OS in an ensemble
Appendix A. IPv6 support
Appendix B. Additional parameters and functions
Appendix C. Examples that are used in our environment
Appendix D. Our implementation environment

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