I just trusted the network guy that inspite of setting auto negotiate it
didn't worked.

Not sure if IBM has documented this anywhere about the incompatibility with
10g - 1g

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 10:00 PM Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com>
wrote:

> So just for me, you're saying it's a 10G card, and like IBM doc says 10G
> cards won't negotiate.  So if the switch is max 1G that seems to explain
> the problem.
>
> But the solution is interesting.  IBM says the customer should never
> swap SFP's in the I/O cards.  Sounds like you did and it fixed the
> problem, which is really why I'm asking because I've seen other
> customers swap SFP's and cause more problems than it's worth.
>
> Either way, glad to hear it's working now.
>
> On 8/16/2022 8:56 PM, Jake Anderson wrote:
> > So I did wrap plug test to ensure the ports were fine and they were good
> >
> > So after finally replacing the 10g SFP with 1G SFP from  z14 fixed this
> > issue. Unfortunately the auto negotiate didn't helped.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 12:42 AM Mark Zelden <m...@mzelden.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Jumping in at the middle, so I apologize. I probably missed something.
> >>
> >> Is this something that just stopped working or isn't working with a CPU
> >> upgrade?  In a recent upgrade
> >> I did we had some OSA OSE ports that wouldn't activate and that is due
> to
> >> the 1G speed but after
> >> talking to the LAN / WAN network team I found the switch was hard coded
> at
> >> 100M.  No one knows
> >> why... lost history from z9, z196, z12, z13 upgrades.. Maybe printers or
> >> something had to have that
> >> long ago. (OSA OSE ports support SNA and TCPIP for those not in the
> >> know).
> >>
> >> Anyway, changing it to auto negotiate on the switch fixed it. I did have
> >> to disable / re-enable the
> >> port on the HMC for it to connect, so it wasn't just a switch change to
> >> fix it.   Luckily we ran into
> >> the problem on our DR box upgrade first where it wasn't a real problem
> and
> >> we knew what to do for 3 CPCs
> >> in production (2 OSE ports on each) and actually swapped them all to 1G
> >> prior to the z15 upgrades.
> >>
> >> Now onto the next challenge in that z/OS 2.6 will not support the SNA
> >> connections currently in use on
> >> the OSEs.  Turns out none are really used any more except on 2 LPARs to
> >> connect to
> >> AIX machines and those connections need to be migrated to Enterprise
> >> Extender.  We have a little
> >> time though. :)
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >>
> >> Mark
> >> --
> >> Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS
> >> ITIL v3 Foundation Certified
> >> mailto:m...@mzelden.com
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:14:49 -0700, Tom Brennan <
> >> t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Is it a 10G (1 port) or 1G (2 port) OSA card?  10G cards won't
> negotiate
> >>> speed, from what I've seen.
> >>>
> >>> On 8/15/2022 10:21 PM, Jake Anderson wrote:
> >>>> Hi
> >>>>
> >>>> The OSA port is connected with working cable LC-LC MM fibre to the 1g
> >>>> switch. From the Cisco switch it has been set as auto negotiate to
> yes.
> >>>>
> >>>> Still from the mainframe the port doesn't show up the LED indication
> at
> >>>> all. I tried toggling standby/online but still no luck. Ran port
> >>>> diagnostics too with no error.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Not sure where to look. Has anyone faced a similar issue and have any
> >> idea
> >>>> on what needs to be done?
> >>>>
> >>>> Jake
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:57 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <
> r.skoru...@hotmail.com
> >>>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> What's your question?
> >>>>> Link monitor means no physical connection to the switch, which means
> >> you
> >>>>> card will not work.
> >>>>> Reason? A lot of, including broken cable, improper cable (MM instead
> of
> >>>>> SM and vice versa), bad connection (Tx to Tx...), disabled port on
> the
> >>>>> switch...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Radoslaw Skorupka
> >>>>> Lodz, Poland
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> W dniu 10.08.2022 o 07:19, Jake Anderson pisze:
> >>>>>> Hello
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Cross posted
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I apologize for my ignorance.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I was looking for the status of one of our OSA card under OSA
> advanced
> >>>>>> facilities under HMC. For one of their PCHPID belonging to OSA shows
> >> the
> >>>>>> port status as 'LINK MONITOR'
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When I checked with my network team if their switch sees the MAC
> >> address
> >>>>> of
> >>>>>> my OSA port but they don't see it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>    From the physical cabling perspective what do I need to do?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Z14 zr1
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Jake
> >>
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