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Issue/Introduction

During the course of investigating some connection issues with CCITCPGW, I issued NETSTAT,ALL's discovered something curious. It appears all my CCITCPGW tasks are using different connection values, even though the parms for each are identical...

I have 2 systems, named C, F, Here are the cciparms. The netstat outputs follow. Why are most of the ports different from what I specified--shouldn't they all be 7000? And why do some have a system DNS name and others do not?

CICPARMS:
C:
SYSID(CCIC)
PROTOCOL(TCPIPGW,162.255.224.13:7000,01,CCIC,4096,START/STOP)
NODE(TCPIPGW,162.255.224.33,01,CCIF,4096,START/STOP)
NODE(TCPIPGW,162.255.224.37,01,CCIG,4096,START/STOP)
NODE(TCPIPGW,162.255.224.17,01,CCIK,4096,START/STOP)
NODE(TCPIPGW,162.255.224.41,01,CCIL,4096,START/STOP)
NODE(TCPIPGW,162.255.224.1,01,CCIM,4096,START/STOP)
CONNECT(CCIF,CCIG,CCIK,CCIL,CCIM)

F:
SYSID(CCIF)
PROTOCOL(TCPIPGW,162.255.224.33:7000,01,CCIF,4096,START/STOP)
NODE(TCPIPGW,162.255.224.13,01,CCIC,4096,START/STOP)
NODE(TCPIPGW,162.255.224.37,01,CCIG,4096,START/STOP)
NODE(TCPIPGW,162.255.224.17,01,CCIK,4096,START/STOP)
NODE(TCPIPGW,162.255.224.41,01,CCIL,4096,START/STOP)
NODE(TCPIPGW,162.255.224.1,01,CCIM,4096,START/STOP)
CONNECT(CCIC,CCIG,CCIK,CCIL,CCIM)

Netstats:
C:
CAS9899I - ENTERED COMMAND: NETSTAT,ALL
CAS9899I 0002: CCIM ACTV - cs390-m(162.255.224.1):1040
CAS9899I 0004: CCIK ACTV - cs390-k(162.255.224.17):25307
CAS9899I 0008: CCIF ACTV - cs390-f(162.255.224.33):8035
CAS9899I 0036: CCIL ACTV - (162.255.224.41):7000
CAS9899I 0044: CCIG ACTV - (162.255.224.37):7000
CAS9899I NETSTAT COMMAND COMPLETED

F:
CAS9899I - ENTERED COMMAND: NETSTAT,ALL
CAS9899I 0001: CCIC ACTV - (162.255.224.13):7000
CAS9899I 0002: CCIM ACTV - cs390-m(162.255.224.1):1041
CAS9899I 0004: CCIK ACTV - cs390-k(162.255.224.17):25308
CAS9899I 0034: CCIL ACTV - (162.255.224.41):7000
CAS9899I 0040: CCIG ACTV - (162.255.224.37):7000
CAS9899I NETSTAT COMMAND COMPLETED

Environment

Release : 14.1

Component : CAICCI-MVS

Cause

CAICCI CODE WORKING AS DESIGNED

Resolution

The PORT you specify in the CCI parms is a LISTEN port. It's used to accept an incoming connection. When a connection is driven from CCITCPGW, TCPIP will assign a port(Called a connection port), it will connect to the LISTEN port of the adjacent system. We are displaying the PORT of the remote system. Based on the display you can see which side drove the connection. If the display shows the LISTEN port, the system the NETSTAT command was issued on drove the connection. If it shows one of the ports assigned by TCPIP, the remote side drove the connection.

As far as the DNS name in the display, the CCITCPGW NETSTAT command extracts the network information from an internal table. When CCITCPGW drove the connection to the remote system it is not storing the DNS name in the table