Re: Cal you telnet to an IBMi host on ports that you think you will be using for MQ and Connect DIrect if the host doesn't have the services running?

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Try the netstat command.  Also, are you using port 23 or 992 for Telnet.

On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 5:39 AM Laurence Chiu <lchiu7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Situation. New servers that will support MQ and CD.  MQ is setup but not
> sure about CD yet,
>
> Teams want to make sure firewalls are working so that MQ traffic is passing
> through on port 1414 (it's coming from a z/OS host) and CD from a Windows
> server on port 1364.
>
> So they run the telnet command  (telnet <host name> <port>) and see if they
> get a response.
>
> From z/OS a telnet to host on port 1414 gets a connection rejected. I can
> see in the firewall logs that packets are getting through but I am not sure
> if the MQ Manager is running or listening on that port and I don't have the
> IBMi knowledge to find out. Unfortunately our tech resources in IBMi are a
> bit thin on the ground at the moment as we transition to a new service
> provider so we are flying in the dark a bit.
>
> Similarly a telnet to the same host on 1364 gets the same timeout. Again
> packets are going through the firewalls but I don't think the CD server is
> running. I am no expert here but I would have thought you need the MQ Queue
> Manager to be running for packets to be acknowledged and similarly for the
> Connect DIrect server to be running. I don't think telnet on that port
> would prove anything.
>
> I did try a command dspmq but I received an error about something not found
> in *LIB (I was using qsecofr :-) ) so people say to me that the MQ library
> has not been added to the list of libraries that this account needs to see.
>
> Any hints on what to do appreciated. Thanks
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