For the native OSA addresses, we were using 104, 105 and 103. For our VSWITCH 
we used 109, 10A and 10B. z/VM TCPIP uses 10C, 10D and 10E.

From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Scott Rohling
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 3:02 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Interesting OSA problem

Hmm -- seemed to start with the microcode update ...   Have you rechecked your 
OSA values at the HMC since the microcode update?  Make sure they are right 
speed, mtu - etc...

You didn't say if your vswitch is connected to a different OSA, but am assuming 
it is?    Doesn't make sense at first glance ... but it all depends on what the 
'bad OSA' is connected to -- any chance there were also network changes to 
switches/routers/etc that might explain?   Things like MTU size difference can 
cause slowness and hangs..

Scott Rohling
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Daniel Allen 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We are running a z9BC with z/VM 5.4.

Prior to the microcode upgrade a week ago Saturday, our OS/390 guest used 
native OSA addresses and our z/OS guests (1.4 & 1.5) used a VSWITCH. After the 
microcode upgrade, our OS/390 guest (using native OSA addresses) was 
communicating very slowly with a TN3270 terminal.  We also tested one of our 
z/OS (1.4) guests using native OSA addresses and communication with a TN3270 
terminal was also very slow. When I put the z/OS (1.4) guest back to using the 
VSWITCH, everything is fine. The microcode level is 67.

Over a year ago, we replaced the OSA card because of another problem.

Is the OSA card having problems ?

Is the VSWITCH doing something to make older operating systems work ?




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