Kurt > Thanks to any and all who consider my question. > Thanks for any help anyone is willing to offer.
You don't have to be so effusive. All we ask is that you donate something significant to our favourite charity! > Can the TCPIP.ETC.SERVICES file be changed at will ... I'm going to guess that, this being a file associated with the sometimes mysterious "resolver" function, if you can't immediately see any change reflected in the translation of a text string such as "http" being converted to the number 80 at the time your program issues the relevant getservbyname() call - typically during the initialisation phase of the program - you should "refresh" your resolver address space with the following command: MODIFY resolver,REFRESH where "resolver" is the name of your "resolver" address space, typically "RESOLVER", of course. Now, I have to go to dinner but I'll sniff around the manuals later in order to see if there's something definitively stated somewhere. Incidentally, the greatest concentration of expertise with the IP component of z/OS Communications Server is to be found here: For IBMTCP-L subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBMTCP-L Another incidentally: "How to refresh ETC.SERVICES" would have been a subject which rather more closely "hit the spot" don't you think? Chris Mason On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:14:53 -0700, Kurt Eastwood <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello, > >Thanks to any and all who consider my question. > >Can the TCPIP.ETC.SERVICES file be changed at will or are there special >considerations for changing this file , such as task usage, back up, etc that >must be taken into account before changing this file? > >Can anyone give me a brief explanation when and how this file is used? > >Thanks for any help anyone is willing to offer. > >Kurt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
