Re: ROI credit card software upgrade problems

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/05/2009, at 6:41 AM, Peter Dow wrote:

> Well, they got a unsatisfying answer from IBM.  the HOSTSCHPTY parm on
> the CHGTCPDMN command was set to *REMOTE; when they changed it to
> *LOCAL, ROI's software worked.

That suggests to me that something in the network DID change--despite  
assurances to the contrary.

When *REMOTE is set the system will first use the named DNS servers to  
resolve TCP names. Either the name in question has been removed from  
those servers or the servers themselves are unreachable.

When *LOCAL is set the system will check the local hosts table first.  
In this case that must satisfy the request

In both cases, if the preferred method fails to resolve the name, the  
secondary method should be used but perhaps it is taking so long to  
perform the *REMOTE that things time-out before *LOCAL is checked?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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