Can the SMP/E Receive Order command URL specify IP address rather than host name?

Products

• ACF2 - z/OS
• Top Secret
• Common Services

Issue/Introduction

Coding the SMP/E ORDERSERVER control statement URL statement: url="https://xxx.xx.xxx.xxx/receiveorder"  in the ORDERSERVER XML text fails. Question pertains to ACF2, Top Secret and RACF.

Symptoms: running batch Internet Service Retrieval job using url="https://xxx.xxx.x.xx/receiveorder" rather than url="https://eapi.broadcom.com/receiveorder" and getting:
GIM69195S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED. THE SERVER AT https://xx.xx.x.xx/receiveorder DETECTED AN ERROR: 404 - Not Found.

 

Environment

Release : 16.0

Component : ACF2 for z/OS

Resolution

When using Internet Service Retrieval the SMP/E ORDERSERVER control statement URL cannot specify the ip address as part of
the URL unless there is a TCPIP IPNODES statement for the IP address relating it to eapi.broadcom.com.
The host (eapi.broadcom.com (http://eapi.broadcom.com/) ) is what should be part of the URL.

Sites should allow the ip address on the firewall side to allow the ip from customer side for the Broadcom Servers eapi.broadcom.com and rdownloads.broadcom.com:

eapi.broadcom.com:              141.202.0.16
rdownloads.broadcom.com: 141.202.253.110