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Fields on the MSF Remote System Definition Panel

The following fields appear on the MSF Remote System Definition Panel:

System Name

A required field that indicates the name of the remote system you are defining. You entered this name in the System Name field on the Multi-System Facility panel.

Applid

A required field that indicates the application ID of the remote system (APPC) or the system name of the CAICCI for that system (CCI).

Network Transport

A required field that indicates the protocol the remote system uses for communication. Valid protocols are APPC, CCI (CAICCI), and AP.

Secure

A required field that indicates the security status of the remote system. Specify Y to indicate that the remote system is secure, and thus any commands received from that system could be processed by the local system. Specify N to indicate that the remote system is not secure (that is, it is a test system). When the local system receives a command from a non-secure system, it processes the command only if it is a display command. Any commands that could do harm to the production system (such as an ENABLE command) are ignored.

Logmode

If the new system is an APPC system, you must specify a log mode name here. If you do not specify a value, CA OPS/MVS uses the VTAM log mode name you specified on the MSFLOGMODE parameter. If the new system is not an APPC system, you must leave this field blank.

Delay Value

An optional field you may use to indicate the network delay time (0 to 60 seconds) between the local MSF system and the remote system you are defining.

Product Name

OPS/MSF (the default), CONSERVE, or Automation Point

Retry Time

An optional field that indicates the number of seconds that you want the MSF to wait between attempts to establish an MSF session to the system you are defining. You can specify an integer from 30 to 86400. The default is no retry.

Retry Count

An optional field that indicates the number of times that you want the MSF to try to establish an MSF session when either the session fails after being established or fails to be established at all. You can specify an integer from 0 to 65535. The default is no retry.

Note: A value of 0 indicates that the MSF should make only one attempt to establish the session. If the first attempt fails, the MSF sets the retry mode of the system to NORETRY.

Alias Names

In these optional fields, you may specify up to eight alias names for the system you are defining.