Yes Chris I did state this wrong "For the OSE cards, when TCP/IP is started, it uses the information in the TCP/IP profile to load the port with IP address, etc, that the port needs to connect to the network."
Good thing I am not the communication person here :) The bottom line (for us) was that to use port 1 on a OSA with a CHPID type of OSE and LCS in the TCPIP definitions, we need to use OSA/SF to load the ODAT for port 1 and set the portname in the config. When we only had 1 port per CHPID, OSA/SF was not required. For our z114 installation/implementation there is another hardware vendor that we have been working with. The CE is from IBM but our other support during the installation/implementation is not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN