Matt Gourley's TechBlog - February 27th, 2007

Here's how my morning has gone:

1) Ensure UPSTREAM is APF-authorised to run on IPO2. It is (D PROG,APF on the console shows me this).

2) Setup the UPSTREAM database for IPO2. This involves creating three VSAM datasets using UPSTREAM's proprietary format, and didn't go as well as I'd have liked. I tried to allocate a 4,000 cyl dataset on a volume that only has 3,400 cyls left, and the job abended like it should. Gary is getting a mod-9 together for me, and I'm going to move all of the IPO2 datasets over to it. Considering one of the datasets has a record for every object that is backed-up and in a cataloged backup, this could get big.

3) I've double-checked USR1.NETPROCS(NET2) to make sure USR1.VTAMLT00 is in the VTAMLST. This means IPO2 has the proper VTAM application IDs defined for it.

4) Once we've gotten past step 2, I need to work on the TCPIP stack on IPO2. At a minimum, I need to add the TCP port for UPSTREAM. We do plan on getting Hipersockets setup.

We're not done yet. Gary set up a new volume for IPO2's database files, which got moved to it. Hopefully it will be enough.

TCPIP stack stuff with Brian in the morning, then we should be ready to test.