JI, It's not entirely clear what you want to do here.
Are you saying that you want to be able to use FTP on a single system - perhaps for some sort of testing purpose? This doesn't seem to make too much sense when you introduce the idea that you want to have a predictable search order. Also I don't really understand the connection between "hard coding" JCL and having a predictable search order. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the searching you are concerned about. Perhaps it isn't searching in order to convert names to IP addresses but in order to convert services names to port numbers or protocol codes to protocol numbers - but then all you are interested in is FTP. The more I look at this the more questions there are. It doesn't really explain anything but I am aware that Cisco uses "loopback" addresses in the same way that CS IP uses VIPAs. Has there been some confusion of terminology by contact with the world of Cisco? Is the trouble you are having that CS IP is unhappy when there are no DEVICE and LINK statements? If so it might be satisfied with the content of your PROFILE data set if you coded a static VIPA. I haven't tried this, it's just a guess. Why not start again and tell us all exactly what it is you want to do - and don't forget the why because, who knows, there might be a better way? Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loopbacked Confused" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 28 June, 2006 5:05 AM Subject: Configuring TCP-IP with loopback only > Hi, > > I would like to set up a z/OS 1.6 PC that uses MVS-FTP as the application. I > do not want any device statements or any UNIX FTP. I would like to hard code > all the TCP JCL Procs so that the search order is known. Needless to say I > am having trouble. The documentation is very sketchy. The doc in the > configuration reference always seems to hint that you can do this but is > quite sporadic. > > Has anyone set up a loopback 127.0.0.1 system to use an FTP server running > on z/OS without USS with no device or link statements? > > Are you able to point me to the steps needed to undo the pieces and get the > loopback to accept data from an FTP client? > > TYIA > > JI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
