Raymond,

Issuing either of those commands would take down all four CTCs to the system in question.  Our native (not VM guests) z/OS systems E and F are pure VTAM host systems with no other activity, providing VTAM network load balancing and failover.  I want to leave one Read/Write pair on System F (CTC0V0F - CTC  VM to SYSF); the 1C61 and 1C62 should remain active while the 0C61 and 0C62 are stopped gracefully.  Inactivating CTC0V0F will stop all four CTCs, leaving me without connectivity through that system at all.  I could not find a VTAM command to inactivate just one specific CTC device, only the whole TRLE.

But... I took a deep breath (especially given that I was logged on via VTAM) from home, and issue CP DET 0C61-0C62 VTAM.  As I had hoped and expected, VTAM reported that those CTCs had gone inactive, but 1C61 and 1C62 remained active.  No userids were disconnected, no other error messages were issued from VTAM.  Subsequent logons worked fine.  I varied them offline to CP and now we can use them from the test LPAR (can't run 64-bit z/VM 5.1 as a guest of a 31-bit VM/ESA system).  

I love it when a plan comes together!  :-)  And... when I don't have to refresh my resume.  :-0

Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's.




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Mike,

Your should be able to issue -

V NET,INACT,ID=CTC0V0E - and/or -
V NET,INACT,ID=CTC0V0F

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Sent: Mon 12/12/2005 2:07 PM
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Subject: VM/VTAM CTC inactivation?



We have four CTCs assigned between our production VTAM box, and four more CTCs assigned to the production VTAM 'twin' box (it's other brother VTAM, if you ever watched the Newhart Show).

E.g.
op d net,trl,trle=ctc0v0e  
IST097I  DISPLAY  ACCEPTED                        
IST075I  NAME = CTC0V0E          , TYPE = TRLE    
IST486I  STATUS= ACTIV----E, DESIRED STATE= ACTIV  
IST087I  TYPE = LEASED             , CONTROL = MPC
IST1221I  WRITE  DEV = 0C52  STATUS = ACTIVE      
IST1221I  WRITE  DEV = 1C52  STATUS = ACTIVE      
IST1221I  READ   DEV = 0C51  STATUS = ACTIVE      
IST1221I  READ   DEV = 1C51  STATUS = ACTIVE      
IST1068I  PHYSICAL RESOURCE (PHYSRSC) = HASEALS    
IST314I  END                                      
M2WALTER HALINVA1; T=0.01/0.01 15:59:06
           
op d net,trl,trle=ctc0v0f                          
IST097I  DISPLAY  ACCEPTED                        
IST075I  NAME = CTC0V0F          , TYPE = TRLE    
IST486I  STATUS= ACTIV----E, DESIRED STATE= ACTIV  
IST087I  TYPE = LEASED             , CONTROL = MPC
IST1221I  WRITE  DEV = 0C62  STATUS = ACTIVE      
IST1221I  WRITE  DEV = 1C62  STATUS = ACTIVE      
IST1221I  READ   DEV = 0C61  STATUS = ACTIVE      
IST1221I  READ   DEV = 1C61  STATUS = ACTIVE      
IST1068I  PHYSICAL RESOURCE (PHYSRSC) = HASFALS    
IST314I  END                                            

For testing a new z/VM 5.1.0 system upgrade we'd like to take 0C61 (Read link) and 0C62 (Write link) offline from the production VM/VTAM svm.
After lengthy review of the VTAM manuals, I've not been able to find a command to vary any CTCs (TRL's in VTAM terminology) INACTive.  
Anyone know of a good command besides CP DETACH?  :-)

>From what I'm seeing, I'd guess that if I were to actually use CP DETACH (shudder), any sessions using those CTCs would be dropped, but immediately be able to reconnect using any of the other remaining three pairs of CTCs to the two VTAM host systems.

Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's.



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