Hi

I'm new to RDz UT. I want to be able to transfer files from my PC to the mainframe emulator preferably through FTP.

Can someone please help me on how to implement this?

Thanks
Juzer

First, do you have TCPIP set up yet? If not, that is the first step. If you are setting up the system so you can connect with RDz, you'll need to ensure you've got scenario 4 in the zPDT volume 2 manual done. Those steps are detailed in the link: RDz UT Configuration Guide

Once you have that setup, and confirmed basic TCPIP, you should be able to FTP to your z/OS.

Hi

I have started with Scenario 4. I've added the following lines to my Devmap:

[manager] name awsosa 0024 --path=A0 --pathtype=OSD --tunnel_intf=y device 401 osa osa device 402 osa osa device 403 osa osa [manager] name awsosa 0022 --path=F0 --pathtype=OSD device 404 osa osa device 405 osa osa device 406 osa osa

Now when I give the awsstart command to start the mainframe, it does not start and the start up process is terminated with the following messages:

ibmsys1@rc-mainframe:/usr/z1090/bin> awsstart aprof12   IBM System z Personal Development Tool (zPDT) Licensed Materials - Property of IBM 5799-ADE (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 2007   All Rights Reserved.   z1090, version 1-2.41.23.01, build date - 09/20/10 for Linux on SuSE 64bit   AWSSTA014I Map file name specified: aprof12 AWSRAS181I 0 Snapdump incident(s), RAS trace and RAS log files occupy 303637 bytes in /home/ibmsys1/z1090/logs AWSRAS182I Associated files, logs and core files occupy 3360 bytes in /home/ibmsys1/z1090/logs AWSSTA204I zPDT started in directory '/usr/z1090/bin'. AWSSTA146I Starting independent 1090 instance 'ibmsys1' OSA code level = 0x4101   sh: osa_lsdev: Permission denied sh: osa_lsdev: Permission denied sh: osa_lsdev: Permission denied sh: osa_lsdev: Permission denied sh: osa_lsdev: Permission denied sh: osa_lsdev: Permission denied sh: osa_lsdev: Permission denied AWSSTA125I System shutdown in progress ... AWSEMI314I CPU 0 zPDTA License Obtained AWSSTA052E Initialization of OSA failed, RC=-4 AWSSTA143I Shutdown complete AWSSTA140E Initialization failure ibmsys1@rc-mainframe:/usr/z1090/bin>

Can you please help me with the Permission denied error? What could I be doing wrong here.

Thanks for your help.
Juzer

This is an install issue. Make sure you have all of the z1090 files at directory /usr/z1090 installed and owned by root:root. All of your system z volumes as well as your devmap should be owned by the user and group used to start the emulator and ipl the system. Also make sure the z1090instcheck command completes with no errors.

RDzJohn

Thanks for the tip! It was indeed an ownership issue. I've given the ownership of the z1090 and its sub directories to ibmsys1 and now I'm able to start the mainframe emulator without errors.

Now having done this, I need to complete two more steps:

1. Make changes in the z/OS VTAMLST
2. Make changes in z/OS TCP/IP Profile

Can you please guide me in completing the above two steps?

Thanks very much for your help.
Juzer

Refer to networking scenario 4 in Redbook SG247722. Many have used these instructions to complete the network setup.

RDzJohn

Yes, I understand, but I'm having difficulty as in where to place these instructions in the vtamlst and z/OS TCP/IP profile.

Actually I'm new to System Z altogether therefore, I'm having a little difficulty in understanding the vtamlst and the TCP/IP steps.

Can you please guide me how to perform these two steps?

Thanks
Juzer

There is another book you need. Its the Link:RDz UT config guide. It goes into much more detail.

You'll setup the VTAMLST and TCPPARMS and another TCP profile PDS. These are in the document listed above, and is for the most part step by step.

I ran into the same issues, and then someone recommended this guide, and then I was running (mostly). Remember, when editing or copying your datasets (i.e. from ADCD.Z111S.TCPPARMS to USER.TCPPARMS), you'll need to put the new dataset name in single quotes (i.e. 'USER.TCPPARMS'). I lost 2 days until I figured that one out. Otherwise it will copy the dataset to IBMUSER.USER.TCPPARMS (prefixing your high level qualifier).

@Liberhominus

Thank you so much for the link and the info. I will go through the book and post back my results here.

Regards,
Juzer

I tried to configure TCP/IP and FTP but somehow its just not working. I've checked everything. There's this dataset member which did not exist on my RDzUT, therefore, I created it. Could this be the problem? The dataset member is called USER.PARMLIB(BPXPRMDB).

I tried to transfer files through the IBM Personal Communications workstation emulator and was able to transfer most of my required files with success except for two.
I have 6 binary files out of which I was able to transfer 5 files to mainframe. The 6th file is a big file (300+ MB) and gets stuck at 98% while getting transferred.

The 7th file is a SMPMCS file which is not getting transferred at all. It gives an error of invalid option selection when I try to transfer it. What mode am I supposed to select while transferring SMPMCS files? Binary, text or append?

Please help as I need to transfer these RTCz installation files to the mainframe so that I can proceed with the installation.

Many thanks for your support,
Juzer

That file is likely not related to your problem. Where are you with TCPIP setup? What have you changed in your setup from that which was shipped to you? Can you connect to your RDzUT z/OS machine from another workstation on your network?

Have you pre-allocated datasets on the host for the datasets you are trying to transfer? If not, you've likely not gotten what you think you have and the datasets likely won't be usable by SMPE. Are you following instructions in the program directory to transfer the files to your host?

RDzJohn

Sorry for the late reply. I'll back to you on this soon.
Thanks
Juzer

Regarding the TCP/IP setup, I've checked most of the things and they seem alright. I don't know why I'm unable to ping or FTP to my z/OS. I can show you the problem via Webex if you want.

I can't proceed further with anything before I get the TCP/IP running smoothly.

Please help.

Thanks,
juzer

Does the TCPIP proc start with no errors including the OSA adapter? Have you tried hometest from TSO option 6? What is the result? Can you ping the z/OS machine from your workstation? Can you ping the workstation from the z/OS machine?

RDzJohn

Hi

When the system started, I was able to copy some of the startup logs:

16.39.14          *IWM048E WLM RUNNING IN GOAL MODE WITH THE DEFAULT * POLICY *16.39.49          *IFB081I LOGREC DATA SET IS FULL,16.39.49, *        DSN=SYS1.LOGREC 16.40.09 STC00056  EZZ6047I TELNET WAITING FOR TCPIP ON PORT    23 16.40.10 STC00058  EZZ7450I FFST SUBSYSTEM IS NOT INSTALLED 16.40.12 STC00060  IEF404I SSHD - ENDED - TIME=16.40.12 16.40.14 STC00058  EZZ4202I Z/OS UNIX - TCP/IP CONNECTION ESTABLISHED FOR TCPIP 16.40.14 STC00058  EZB6473I TCP/IP STACK FUNCTIONS INITIALIZATION COMPLETE. 16.40.14 STC00058  EZAIN11I ALL TCPIP SERVICES FOR PROC TCPIP ARE AVAILABLE. 16.40.14 STC00058  EZZ4308I ERROR: CODE=80103016 DURING ACTIVATION OF DEVICE PORTA. DIAGNOSTIC CODE: 02 16.40.14 STC00058  EZZ4308I ERROR: CODE=80103016 DURING ACTIVATION OF DEVICE PORTB. DIAGNOSTIC CODE: 02 16.40.16 STC00058  EZD1176I TCPIP HAS SUCCESSFULLY JOINED THE TCP/IP SYSPLEX GROUP EZBTCPCS 16.40.17 STC00062  $HASP373 BPXAS    STARTED 16.40.19 STC00056  EZZ6003I TELNET LISTENING ON PORT    23 16.42.08 STC00047  GFSC284I NETWORK FILE SYSTEM CLIENT COULD NOT GET GSS CREDENTIALS FOR THE NFS CLIENT : GSS API krb5_get_default_realm() FAILED WITH GSS MAJOR STATUS 96C73ADF GSS MINOR STATUS 00000000 16.42.08 STC00047  GFSC700I z/OS NETWORK FILE SYSTEM CLIENT (HDZ1B1N) started. OA32430, GFSC4XLO, Apr  8 2010  10:36:41 . 16.43.04 TSU00063  $HASP373 IBMUSER  STARTED 17.13.20 STC00048  IEF404I BPXAS - ENDED - TIME=17.13.20 17.13.20 STC00050  IEF404I BPXAS - ENDED - TIME=17.13.20 17.13.20 STC00062  IEF404I BPXAS - ENDED - TIME=17.13.20 17.13.20 STC00051  IEF404I BPXAS - ENDED - TIME=17.13.20 10.22.56 STC00064  $HASP373 BPXAS    STARTED 10.22.56 STC00065  $HASP373 BPXAS    STARTED 10.35.26 TSU00066  $HASP373 IBMUSER  STARTED 10.54.52 TSU00067  $HASP373 IBMUSER  STARTED 10.58.10 TSU00068  $HASP373 USER1    STARTED 11.06.25 STC00064  IEF404I BPXAS - ENDED - TIME=11.06.25 11.24.29 STC00069  $HASP373 BPXAS    STARTED

I tried hometest and here's the output:

EZA0602I TCP Host Name is: ADCD EZA0605I Using Host Tables to Resolve ADCD EZA0611I The following IP addresses correspond to TCP Host Name: ADCD EZA0612I 192.168.252.167 EZA0614I The following IP addresses are the HOME IP addresses defined in PROFIL E .TCPIP: EZA0615I 10.1.1.2 EZA0615I 192.168.1.126 EZA0615I 127.0.0.1 EZA0617E Error: 192.168.252.167 is not in the HOME List EZA0624I * * * Hometest failed - configuration error * * * EZA0625I Please correct your TCP/IP configuration and run this program again. ***

The IP address of my Linux machine running RDzUT is 192.168.1.129 and the I've tried to set the IP address of RDzUT as 192.168.1.126. I'm unable to ping the z/OS machine from anywhere and I'm unable to ping my workstation from my z/OS.

You have at least two errors here. The first is that your OSA adapter did not start correctly on the z/OS machine. You can tell this by message EZZ4308I ERROR: CODE=80103016 DURING ACTIVATION OF
DEVICE PORTA. DIAGNOSTIC CODE: 02 . The message books say this is most likely caused by a VTAM TRLE that has not been specified correctly. The second problem is that your DNS cannot resolve your hostname - ADCD. Hometest tells you that. This can be caused by an incorrect NSINTERADDR value in the TCPIP.DATA dataset and/or a missing hostname in the hosts file. Please review these configurations. I also suggest you follow all of the configuration instructions in publication SC14-7281-1.

RDzJohn

Thanks, I was able to solve the TCP/IP issue with the help of an IBM PMR.

Now getting back to the file transfer problem, I am able to FTP to z/OS but I'm not able to transfer a '.tar' file from my Windows machine to the z/OS UNIX SS. When I try to put my .tar file in the UNIX directory, I receive the following error message:

'Invalid data set name "src-bfagent-7.1.2.0-0-0016.tar". Use MVS
Dsname conv '

It's expecting an MVS data set, but I have a .tar file that contains the installation kit for one of IBM's tools which can only be installed using the z/OS UNIX SS. Can you please guide me how can I achieve this?

Thanks
Juzer

Could you please post the exact ftp command you used. Also, you did change to binary mode before you did the ftp, correct?

RDzJohn

Hi Juzer,

Just judging by the message I would hazard a guess that you need to specify the destination file correctly. If you are transferring a file from your PC to the zOS you might do something like this:

ftp> put C:\pcdir0\src-bfagent-7.1.2.0-0-0016.tar /ussdir1/ussdir2/bfagent.tar