Troubleshoot communications problems

If you suspect you have a problem with communications connectivity, the iSeries™ system provides a set of tools to help you with problem analysis tasks. The list below contains some of the more common tools for communications problem analysis.

You can do the following to identify communication problems:

• Display message queues to solve communication problems
• Display the Product Activity Log to solve communication problems
• Display the Print Error Log to solve communication problems

You can do the following to solve communication problems:

• Solve communication problems using communications trace
• Solve communication problems using the system problem log
• Solve communication problems using status information
• Considerations for system tuning during error recovery
• Use error messages to aid in error recovery
• Solve communication problems using reason codes