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Dr. APPN Diagnosis Version 1.00 11/01/93
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Purpose: DRAPPN.EXE was created by a need for customers and support staff to be
able to quickly check for connectivity while not having to remember
all of the verbose options required to execute some of the IBM Sample
utility programs. Because of this need and the desire to make it into
a simple PM based utility, VX-Rexx was chosen as a simple front end
to the existing IBM sample programs to allow upgrades to these without
requiring rebuilding the front end.
Design: The design started with a main menu selection of 10 different options
which appeared to be the most common for most people's use. They
include the following:
APING Mainframe - These options issue a standard APING to either
APING Network Node an APPC/MVS Application, an APPN Network Node,
APING Prompt or any other name that will be prompted for.
They interrogate the response to issue a
single reply indicating whether or not the
connectivity test was good or bad.
There are 2 user customizeable files called
MFLIST.DAT and NNLIST.DAT which contain the
fully qualified names of APPC/MVS Appls and
Network Node names. Of course you can include
End Nodes,LEN's,etc if desired in either list.
The distinction was to be able to show that
there is a relationship between End Node and
Network Node(most likely) before End Node to
APPC/MVS host. E.G. Check your Network Node
and then check the Mainframe to ensure the
proper connectivity. If this is distributed to
end user's, my suggestion would be to only
include the user's Preferred and possibly
their backup NN server.
APING Options MFLIST - This is pretty much the same as above options
APING Options NNLIST except that the output is not interrogated but
APING Options Prompt merely presented to the user with EPM.EXE.
Since this data is most likely being used for
performance measurements, I wanted an easy way
for the user/support person to save the data
into another file,etc.
Display Links NNLIST - This option issues the DISPLAY -LI command to
Display Links Prompt find out the Active links to a particular
Network Node or Prompt for any node. This also
implies that they must have RDSPSRVR.EXE
available on that node. The same NNLIST.DAT
file is used here. EPM.EXE is used to present
this data to the user for the same reason as
APING Options, historical purposes.
Display Options NNLIST- This option prompts the user for which of the
Display Options Prompt 24 available options to query for. They are
Check box selectable and multiple options can
be selected. If no option is marked, then ALL
options are used.
General Information - Error's from APING and DISPLAY programs are not routed to
the standard output, therefore, if an error of this type
occurs, I decided to go ahead and let it flow to the
VX-Rexx Console for interrogation.
Files distributed - MFLIST.DAT Sample list of APPC/MVS Appls
MODLIST.DAT Sample list of Mode names
NNLIST.DAT Sample list of Network Node names
VROBJ.DLL VX-Rexx Object DLL
DRAPPN.EXE DRAPPN Executable
DRAPPN.ICO DRAPPN Icon
APPNDR.TXT This help file
Files Needed - APING.EXE Available on Compuserv,OS2BBS,etc
DISPLAY.EXE Available on API diskette for Comm Mgr and
distributed automatically with CM/2.
If problems are encountered or you have suggestions, please route them to
Kerry Mercer via Compuserv @ 75000,175