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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Communications Server
Created by Guest
Created on May 17, 2013

RELATED IDEAS

Enhance the moddvipa utility to work with (virtual) hostnames.

The z/OS Communication Server utility
"moddvipa" works only with IP's. It should be enhanced to also accept a real or virtual hostname to be independent from the IP which is assigned to the hostname.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 28, 2024
    This item is unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into product plan.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 19, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS Communications Server

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Networking
    Product - z/OS Communications Server

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 5, 2013

    This would be a great enhancement. Today, many customers install SAP BEFORE the network has been made to have no SPoFs. Later they change the network under the SAP application. This usually means lots of changes to SAP configuration. If customers could choose hostnames ahead of time with names that assume that VIPA/OSPF is in use, then automation could be setup to use these "virtual" hostnames. Later when the network big bang comes along to turn on VIPA, no changes are needed in SAP nor Automation. With the naming convention used for virtual names for invidudual SAP components, it is very easy to clone these names for newly created SAP systems.

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 5, 2013

    I like the requirement because it simplifies the moddvipa command and reduces the error rate by entering a wrong IP address.

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 5, 2013

    I like the requirement because it simplifies the moddvipa command and reduces the error rate by entering a wrong IP address.

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 4, 2013

    this would be a very useful enhancement to reliability in a High Availability environment.

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