Use the network server description (NWSD) dump tool on i5/OS

You can use the network server description (NWSD) dump tool (QFPDMPLS) to dump the different configuration and log files that are used with your integrated Windows server. To do this you need *ALLOBJ special authority.

To do this, take these steps:

1. Vary off the NWSD (see Start and stop an integrated server).
2. At the i5/OS command line, type

   CALL QFPDMPLS PARM(nwsdname)

   where nwsdname is the network server description name.

   The program creates a database file QGPL/QFPNWSDMP with multiple members. Each database file member name has the NWSD name followed by two digits (01 - 99). For example, for an NWSD named MYSERVER, the first member name would be MYSERVER01.

3. Display the member to see the contents of the different files associated with your server description. Different files are important for problem analysis, depending on which installation step is causing a problem.
4. Refer to the following table to note the importance of each file during a particular installation step. If a file is marked 1, refer to it first during problem analysis, 2 second, and 3 last. Files that are not marked are not relevant to installation, but may be relevant at other times. Some members are not created until the post-installation phase.

Note:

You cannot use QFPDMPLS to retrieve files on the system drive if you convert the drive to NTFS.

You may not find all the files listed below on some servers. If a particular file is not found, the file will not be retrieved by the QFPDMPLS API and the corresponding database member will not be created.

NWSD configuration and log files