How to determine the IP address for the mainframe LPAR.

Products

• IDMS
• IDMS - Database
• IDMS - ADS

Issue/Introduction

How to determine the IP address for the mainframe LPAR.

 

Environment

Release: All releases
Component: IDMS

Resolution

To determine the IP address for a mainframe LPAR:

1. Open up a Command Prompt within Windows. You should find a link for this tool under Start->Programs->Accessories.
   
   
2. Using the Node name of the mainframe LPAR issue a Trace Route command as follows:
   
   "tracert lpar-name" (where lpar-name equals the node name of your mainframe LPAR)
   
   
3. The above command will trace the path to the node-name specified in the command and print a report of all of the nodes (along with their IP addresses) needed to traverse the network to this location.

For example, the following report was produced for command "tracert <lpar-name>":

Tracing route to lpar-name [##.##.#.#]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  ##.##.#.#

  ..
  
  9    15 ms    15 ms    15 ms  lpar-name [##.##.#.#]

The last entry in the list (as well as the report header) will show the IP address of the specified node (highlighted in red above).