Enable objects to accept connections

After configuring LAN support, you are ready to enable your configuration objects to accept connections.

For Systems Network Architecture (SNA), you enable or vary on the line and controller descriptions. For TCP/IP, you can enable or start the interface.

Vary on configuration objects:

To accept connections, you must vary on the configuration objects by using the Work with Configuration Status (WRKCFGSTS) command as follows:

  1. Type WRKCFGSTS *LIN and press Enter.
  2. Locate your line description.
  3. Move your cursor to the Opt field of the line description, type 1 (Vary on), and press Enter.
  4. If the line description does not vary on successfully, press F3 (Exit). Then you should read Display message queues to understand how to view the error messages and to find possible solutions.
  5. Press F3 (Exit).

If the line description varied on successfully, you should do the same for the controller description if you created one. Vary on the description by using the same instructions for varying on the line description. Instead of specifying *LIN for the WRKCFGSTS command, you must specify *CTL.

Start the TCP/IP interface:

To enable the interface, use iSeries™ Navigator to do these steps:

  1. In iSeries Navigator, expand the server that contains the TCP/IP interface to start.
  2. Select Network > Protocol.
  3. Right-click TCP/IP and select Interface.
  4. You can start the interface now, or every time TCP/IP starts.
    1. To start the interface now:
      1. Select an inactive interface.
      2. Click Start.
      3. Click OK to close the dialog box.
    2. To start the interface every time TCP/IP starts:
      1. Double-click the interface.
      2. Select Start interface when TCP/IP is started.
      3. Click OK.
Parent topic: Manage token-ring support