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Sreejith · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 6:30 am Post subject: IMS Connect Training

All,
Does anyone know any institution providing IMS Connect training. My prefered locations are anywhere in Europe/US.

I contacted IBM but it seems they don't have any in the near future

Thanks
Sreejith

kolusu · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 7:32 am Post subject:

Sreejith,

Did you try IBM'S e-learning service? Check this link

http://www-306.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=course_list&subChapter=361&subChapterInd=S®ion=us&subChapterName=Communications&country=us

Hope this helps...

Cheers

Kolusu
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Sreejith · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 8:29 am Post subject:

Kolusu,
Thanks. I contacted IBM UK and they told me this course is not offered in UK and at the moment is not sheduled in US for the near future. I contacted a couple of mainframe trainers in Uk but none of them know IMS connect

thanks
Sreejith

Bithead · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 8:34 am Post subject:

I may be able to help you. I have been using it for a year or so.

Sreejith · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 11:05 am Post subject:

Bithead,
thanks. We just got this installed and doing some prototype test. I only deal with the mainframe side. In the current setup IMS connect gets messages from Seebeyond/eGate. the guys on the seebeyond are sending messages to IMS connect and blaming us saying they are not getiing a reply back. I can see the following error in the log
"HWSP1435E Socket closed; Request message incomplete" and the manual says this is something to do with the incoming message. Now they are investigating this.

Meanwhile I need to get some understanding on how to monitor the incoming messages. According to the manual I can see a trace in the HWSRCDR dataset. But when I looked at this it is empty. I think I need to set the "recorder" option on and I don't have the console access to do this.

do you know any other way to monitor the messages ?
also is there any way to do a PING from a DOS prompt to IMS connect to check whether it is Listening

Thanks
Sreejith

Bithead · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 11:26 am Post subject:

I am running IMS Connect 1.2 as a started task (rather than a job) against IMS 7.1. The only way I know of activating the recorder is to issue the RECORDER OPEN command against the outstanding reply either thru the console or via SDSF. If you have access to open the datastore, you should be able to start and stop the recorder. There are also some useful messages available in the address space if you have access.

You cannot ping IMS Connect - you can only ping the mainframe (TCP/IP address space).

There is a Java sample available from IBM. This is where I started to determine in IMS Connect was configured correctly.

Please post the entire message. There should be some function and post codes associated with it.

FYI - I found that I needed to increase the MAXSOC parameter to 2000 from the example that they provided and I used ECB=Y for performance reasons.

Sreejith · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject:

Bithead,
here is the entire message
88 HWSC0000I *IMS CONNECT READY* HWSRSGT
HWSP1435E Socket closed; Request message incomplete; M=SDRC
HWSD0282I Communication with DS=IMST closed; M=DREC

I will try the Java sample.

follwing is the current set up

HWS (ID=HWSRSGT,RACF=Y)
TCPIP (HOSTNAME=TCPIP,PORTID=(650),MAXSOC=2000,TIMEOUT=8888,ECB=Y,
EXIT=(HWSSMPL0,HWSIMSO0))
DATASTORE (ID=IMST,GROUP=XCFRSGT,MEMBER=HWSMEMT,TMEMBER=IMSMEMT)

Sreejith · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 12:38 pm Post subject:

Bithead,
you mentioned issuing RECORDER OPEN via SDSF. could you please tell me how to do this. I tried it on the SDSF screen but getting an "invalid Command"

Thanks
Sreejith

Bithead · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 1:07 pm Post subject:

Check for the outstanding reply number in the SDSF log or by browsing the address space then issue the command /nnRECORDER OPEN where nn is the reply number.

Sreejith · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:27 am Post subject:

Bithead,
thanks very much for you replies. I tried the sample java program. but failed to achive anything due to a firewall issue. I will try this once this is solved.

thanks
Sreejith

Sreejith · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:35 am Post subject:

If anyone interested in this here is one scheduled for 20-Sept-2004

http://www.ims-society.org/html/cm651.html