Towards the OSA and beyond - Using Wireshark for z/OS Packet Trace Analysis

Project and Program: Enterprise Data Center, Communications Server

Tags: Proceedings, 2012, SHARE in Atlanta 2012

The days are over when connectivity problems in the System z could solely
be solved by z/OS personnel only. In today's modern multi-tier
multi-platform application designs a new approach in network diagnosis is
required.
While the z/OS packet trace is always a good start on the quest to the real
root cause of a problem, unfortunately outside the zSeries the SYSTCPDA
packet trace is not known well enough to serve as a trusted evidence.
This session will demonstrate how the use of wireshark helped to speed up
problem resoution for problems that surfaced on z/Os but had their root
cause outside the mainframe.
This session is a preparation for a wireshark hands-on lab session Matthias Burkhard, IBM Corporation

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