On Thursday, 01/08/2004 at 01:04ZE10, Vic Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This came up in the past, and a developer (don't you love it when people > say "I heard this from development" -- and no, I don't think it was you > Alan!) said "working as designed". Sure, before CIDR. But now that > VARSUBNETTING in your PROFILE TCPIP is ignored because the assumption is > that you want CIDR, I can't help but think that this is just misleading > and confusing. IMHO, it either needs to be fixed or removed.
No, it wasn't me. Please contact the Support Center. The OSA architecture requires that we set the network mask, but, as of today, nothing in the OSA uses it that I know of. Either the field is actually obsolete and should be set to zero (and not displayed), or it should be set to the correct value in the event OSA decides to implement new function based on this field. A thought: It may show up on OSA/SF and be reported by OSA Direct-SNMP subagents. (Did you know you could use the z/OS OSA SNMP agent to report on OSA's used by *any* guest, simply by attaching the correct management subchannel to z/OS?) Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
