Rex When I had systems to play with, I did whatever testing I could in order to verify, clarify - or plain disprove - what I found in the manuals in order to be able to teach with a clear conscience.
However I think I've found the text which does indeed imply that you do need to respecify *all* your DEVICE and LINK statements. >From section 1.2.13, "DEVICE and LINK statements", at the very end, we find the following: <quote> When you add new LINK statements, any corresponding BEGINROUTES, GATEWAY, HOME, and TRANSLATE statements coded to include the new links are treated as replacements for active statements. Therefore, when you code the BEGINROUTES, GATEWAY, HOME, or TRANSLATE statements of the data set specified on a VARY TCPIP,,OBEYFILE command, be sure to include new and existing links that you want to have active in your configuration. </quote> The second, final sentence appears to be the relevant one and, unless someone can explain otherwise, it doesn't appear actually to follow from the first sentence - unless it just means "if you change one, you'd better assume you've changed them all". Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pommier, Rex R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 12 January, 2007 10:43 PM Subject: Re: Simple TCPIP OBEYFILE question > Thanks, Pat, for the response. > > Here's what testing told me. Apparently the hardware configuration area > is one of the all-or-nothing sections where the OBEYFILE replaces > everything that TCPIP already was using. > > Feeding my original OBEYFILE into TCPIP caused me to lose both my ports. > I also lost all my route information, including defaults. Once I added > all the DEVICE, LINK, HOME, and ROUTE information for both my ports to > the OBEYFILE, I was able to successfully activate a new IP address on > one of the ports. > > Rex > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 3:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Simple TCPIP OBEYFILE question > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:34:23 -0600, Pommier, Rex R. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >... > >I have an OBEYFILE that looks like this: > > > >DEVICE GIGADEV0 MPCIPA > >LINK GIGA00 IPAQENET GIGADEV0 > >HOME > > 172.16.0.7 GIGA00 > >START GIGADEV0 > > > >This OBEYFILE only contains the configuration information for the port > >I want to change. I should be able to feed this OBEYFILE into TCPIP > >and get the IP address changed without impacting the other OSA port, > right? > > No. > > You are right about Device and Link defs. You have to do a DELETE to > get rid of them. But a HOME statement resets the Home list. You have > to add all static Home definitions. (Entries that were added > dynamically - DVIPAs, dynamic XCF links, etc. - will be dynamically > readded.) > > >... Also, do I need to feed the > >BEGINROUTES/ENDROUTES block into the OBEYFILE since that isn't changing > > >either? > >... > > I think you are safe with BEGINROUTES/ENDROUTES, but we use dynamic > routes and don't use BEGINROUTES/ENDROUTES so I'm not absolutely sure. > > Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
