Preparing to Install the Mainframe Application

This chapter describes what you do to prepare to install the CiscoWorks Blue Maps and SNA View mainframe component. Before you install, configure, and validate this product, read the following main topics in this chapter:

Mainframe Hardware Requirements

You need the following hardware to install the mainframe application:

Tape drive---Cartridge tape reader capable of reading a 3480 cartridge with a density of 6250 bits per inch (bps).
Disk space---Twenty cylinders of 3380 direct access storage, or equivalent. This includes space for the SMP/E Target and Distribution libraries.

Mainframe Software Requirements

This section lists mainframe software that you need to run the mainframe application.

Required Mainframe Software

You must have the following mainframe software to use with the mainframe application:

Operating system---MVS/ESA (OS/390) 5.5.2 or later, plus SMP/E, Release 7 or later
Access method---VTAM 4.1 or later
Protocol stack---One of the following communication protocols:
- SNA LU 6.2
- TCP/IP (Cisco IOS for S/390, IBM TCP/IP for MVS Version 3, Release 1 or later, or Interlink TCP/IP for MVS)

: If both TCP/IP and LU 6.2 are available, Cisco recommends TCP/IP.

Workstation Software

All CiscoWorks Blue Maps or SNA View workstations must have either TCP/IP or LU 6.2 connectivity to the mainframe. TCP/IP connectivity is provided through the workstation operating system. LU 6.2 connectivity is provided by one of the following products:

On AIX systems---IBM eNetwork Communications Server for AIX, Version 5
On HP-UX systems---HP-UX SNAplus2, including SNAplus2 Link and
SNAplus2 API
On Solaris systems---Data Connection SNAP-IX V6.0.6 for SPARC Solaris (for information see the URL www.datacon.co.uk).

Optional Mainframe Software

The following mainframe software is optional:

Network management system (NetView 2.3 or later, or SOLVE:Netmaster 2.2 or later). Use TME 10 NetView for OS/390 V1R2 if you want to connect the CiscoWorks Blue web server to NetView.
Network Control Program (NCP) 4.3 or later if you use RSRB Maps and SNA View PU and LU correlation

Mainframe Installation Summary

This section summarizes the steps you follow to install the mainframe application and to update the other mainframe software. Use this installation summary to ensure that you have performed all the mainframe installation tasks.

Step 1 Install the mainframe tape files to the mainframe.

Step 2 Configure connectivity from the workstation to the mainframe.

Step 3 Update MVS and VTAM. Change the MVS and VTAM system software.

Step 4 Update the Configuration Services XID exit routine.

Step 5 Do not filter out the following messages:

IST093I
IST619I
IST590I
IST1132I
IST1416I
IST1136I
IST259I
IST105I
IST621I
IST1133I
IST1135I
NSP2000I

Step 6 Update the NSPPARM configuration file by customizing the mainframe parameter cards.

Step 7 Update either TME:10 Netview for OS/390 (NetView) or SOLVE: Netmaster (Netmaster).

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