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> On Jun 8, 2020, at 8:16 AM, Sean Gleann <sean.gle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the hint about thoroughly checking output, Michael.
> I went back and studied all the saved outputs, hoping to find something
> that might be helpful.
> In the event, there were no indications of such problems - no error
> messages or non-zero return codes - but it's as well to be sure.
> 
> Can I ask you for more information regarding what you see with the '3.2
> Retrieve Workflow version' step, please?
> For me, I get to the point of clicking 'Perform' on this step, and I see
> that z/OSMF is about to use the REST API with the request
> 
> https://localhost:10443/zosmf/workflow/rest/1.0/workflows/3ca56936-9a81-48a0-94d9-84e28ee2d842
> :
> 
> Clicking 'Next' on this results in:
> 
> IZUWF9999E: The request cannot be completed because an error occurred. The
> following error data is returned: "EDC8128I Connection refused.
> (errno2=0x76630291) (Connection refused)"
> 
> and so I am forced to click on 'Finish' if I am to proceed.
> What do you see during this sequence?
> 
> I suspect that it's the 'localhost:10443' bit that is the root of the
> problem, but I'm unsure how to circumvent it, or even to correct the
> problem.
> As I said earlier in this thread, I'm working through a tunnelled SSH
> connection to access my z/OSMF. In the main, this is working quite happily.
> That connection definition associates my desktop system's local port 10443
> with the hosts systems' 10443, and the URL I use to access z/OSMF is
> https://localhost:10443/zosmf.
> So I'm at a bit of a loss in understanding why the connection should be
> refused.
> 
> Regards
> Sean
> 
> 
>> On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 04:08, Michael Babcock <bigironp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Oh and beware, just because the Verify Feature Bits job (and a couple of
>> others) gets a zero condition code doesn’t mean it executed successfully.
>> You have to check STDERR and STDOUT tabs.  Mine always gets a syntax
>> error.
>> 
>>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:05 AM Sean Gleann <sean.gle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> It's been really quite a troublesome effort for me, Michael, but I guess
>>> it's true to say that most of the problems are down to my rudimentary
>>> knowledge of TCPIP and networking in general.
>>> For various reasons, I have to use a tunnelled connection through to the
>>> z/OS guest, and that makes things a bit more interesting.
>>> The 'Getting Started' redbook (SG24-8457-00) has been my sole point of
>>> reference all the way through, and yeah, it's OK - up to point. it
>> doesn't
>>> cover the tunnelling complication, naturally, and there are some very
>> poor
>>> typos to take into account.
>>> As for the Workload Provisioning process in z/OSMF - after you've
>> specified
>>> a bunch of parameters, it's just a JCL generator/job submitter/checker
>> with
>>> a couple of z/OSMF-specific bits thrown in.
>>> During the initial parameter specification phase I had considerable
>>> difficulty at the point of specifying the RSA key, but eventually got it
>>> right.
>>> Step 3.2 in the process - where some sort of version information is
>> looked
>>> for - has always failed for me. I've never been able to make it work as
>>> expected and have had to force it to a 'complete' state by clicking the
>>> 'Finish' button.
>>> 
>>> I tried to adapt the process detailed in the redbook to suit our security
>>> set-up, but the result never worked. In the end, I followed the procedure
>>> to the letter, and created the ZCXxxx users and groups in RACF as
>>> specified.
>>> Result - I've finally got a working container that I can log in to. The
>>> next step according to the redbook is to download an image from
>>> hub.docker.com, but when I try the specified command - 'docker pull
>> nginx'
>>> - the container tries to go to registry-1.docker/.io/v2 - which isn't
>>> specified anywhere in the parameter files created by z/OSMF  - and it
>> times
>>> out.
>>> I've added suitable mods to \etc\hosts, \etc\ipnodes and to TCPIP.HOSTS,
>>> messed around with DNS specifications and I've commented out the IPSEC
>>> statements in the TCPIP PROFILE parameters (thank gawd for sandbox
>>> systems!). Nothing along those lines has altered the situation.
>>> Now, I'm waiting for our company networking guys to suggest other things
>> to
>>> try.
>>> 
>>> Good luck with your efforts, Michael.
>>> I hope you have a smoother ride than I have had so far.
>>> 
>>> Sean
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 15:32, Michael Babcock <bigironp...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Sean,
>>>> 
>>>> I’m just going through the provisioning process now.  Any gotchas that
>>> you
>>>> care to share?
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:30 AM Sean Gleann <sean.gle...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, Gadi.
>>>>> Yes, there are GLZ messages associated with these AZDs, but all they
>> do
>>>> is
>>>>> identify the stored failure data.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It's all somewhat moot now. I tried to /P the container, and got told
>>> the
>>>>> task was non-cancellable.
>>>>> Eventually I resorted to a FORCE ARM to get rid of it.
>>>>> Restarted the task and now it's running perfectly! No errors or
>>> warnings,
>>>>> and I'm logged in, ready to start working with my first container.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sean
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 11:12, Gadi Ben-Avi <gad...@malam.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I found this:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.izso100/izso100_diagnosisservice.htm
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It looks like the real information is in GLZ messages.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I don't have z/OS v2.4 running, so I can't really check.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Gadi
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On
>>>> Behalf
>>>>>> Of Sean Gleann
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 12:53 PM
>>>>>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>>>>>> Subject: AZD messages?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Can anyone point me at documentation for AZD... messages coming out
>>> of
>>>> a
>>>>>> zcx container, please?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm getting:
>>>>>> AZDN0004E Failure &rsn configuring IPv4 address and AZDP0001E
>>>> Unexpected
>>>>>> error 5 configuring data disks
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> but various attempts at searching for these produce 'nothing found'
>>>>>> responses.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Sean
>>>>>> 
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