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EnterpriseExpress Adapter/ESCON INSTALLATION GUIDE Insta llation Guid e Part Number 40-01459-D0-001 129 Middlesex Turn pik e, Burlingt on Ma. 01803 • (781) 272- 8200 Fax (781) 272- 0342 • www.bustech.com PCI ESCON A dapter[...]

Fe deral Comm unicat ions Comm ission (FCC) Stat ement WARN I NG: This equip ment generat es, uses, and can radi ate radio frequ enc y energy and if not installed and used in a ccordance with the instruction ma nual, may cau se interference to radio communications. It has been tested and found to compl y with the limits for a Class A computing devi[...]

Table of Contents i Table of Contents • • • •• • • •• • • •• • • • A BOUT T HIS P UBLICATION ............................. iii Who Should Use This Publication ................... iii How t o Use This Publica tion ........................... iii What is Included in This Publication ............... iii What’s New in [...]

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About This Publication iii About This Publication This User's Guide provides the information necess ary to install and configure Bus- Tech's PC I ESCON Ada pter (PBSA) t o connect a Server to an IBM Mainf rame. The following terms are used as synonyms for the PCI ESCON Adapter in this publication and in some softwa re installation sc reen[...]

iv PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide CHAPTER 6. TROUBLESHOOT ING – This chapter t akes the read er through some troubleshooting steps to be tried when the adapter is not working properl y. What’s Ne w in th is Release ?  Plug and Play drivers for Microsoft W indows 2000 Server have been adde d to the installation kit.  Support fo[...]

Introduction 1 Chapter 1. I NTRODUCTION The PCI ESCON Adapter from Bus-Tech, Inc. is a high performance adapt er that enables PCI-based sy stems to communicate with mainfra me systems through direct IBM channel attachment. The ESCON adapter acts as a control unit for Enterprise Systems Connections (ESCON); providing high speed throughput and ex cel[...]

2 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Additionally, the PCI ESCON Adapter includes TCP/IP Direct Connect fo r the Windows 2000 and NT environments. Direct Connect provides a hi gh-performance, point-to-point TCP/IP connections between th e mainframe and the se rver’s TCP/ IP stack and can be used with Bus-Tech’s MPC+ for W indows NT to provide[...]

Introduction 3 Minimum System Requirem ents Hardw are The minimum hardware requirements fo r using the PCI ESCON Adapter are: - Pentium 100Mhz - 64MB RAM for Windo ws NT Systems -128MB RAM for Windows 2000 Systems - 1 Available PCI BusMaster Slot - 2 MB Hard Disk Space (for Bus-Tech Drivers) Softwar e Windows The supported releases o f Microsoft so[...]

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Hardware Installa tion 5 Chapter 2. H ARDW ARE I NST ALLA TION Ins talling the Ada pter CAUTION! The PCI ESCON Adapter is a PC adapter card and as such can be damaged by Electrostatic Discharge. Before removing the adapter from it’s protective static bag, please ensure that you are free of static char ge. At minimum, you should ground yourself to[...]

6 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide 4. Remove the adapter from its protective anti-static bag and insert the adapter into the chosen PCI bus slot. Make sure the adapter is fully inserted in the slot. Place a screw throug h the top of the mounting bra cket and secure ly fasten to the sy stem chassis. 5. Replace the s ystem cov er. 6. As shown in [...]

Driver Insta llation 7 Chapter 3. D RIVER I NST ALLA TION The PCI ESCON Adapter offers driv ers for Micro soft's Windows 2000 Server and Microsoft Windows NT Server. This chapter disc usses installation of the drivers. Please refer to the section appropria te to your operating environment. Windows 2 000 Note: Bus-Tech adapters include drivers [...]

8 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Figure 3-2. Search the Floppy The hardware wizard will search the W indows director y and then the floppy disk. When it finds the PBSA drivers it will prompt you for approval to install (Fig ure 3-3). Figure 3-3. Confirm PBSA Driver Install Windows 2000 will install the new drivers. At the end of installation [...]

Driver Insta llation 9 Figure 3-4. New Found Hardware Wizard Completing[...]

10 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Windows NT The PBSA network driver is alwa ys required in order to allow Windows NT to communicate with the adapter . The d river must be installed once for each PC I ESCON Adapter installed in the system. The following step-b y-step procedure will install the driver into your Wi ndows NT Server. Step 1. From[...]

Driver Insta llation 11 Figure 3-6. Network Screen 3. From the Select N etwork Adapter screen (Figure 3-7), click t he H ave Disk... button. Figure 3-7. Add Network Adapter[...]

12 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide 4. The Insert Disk screen i s displayed (Figure 3-8). Figure 3-8 . Insert Disk Dialog Box With the floppy inserted into the flopp y drive point to the root director y by enterin g " A: " wher e A is y our flopp y drive and press O K . 5. The Select OEM Option dialog box will be displayed (Figure 3-9[...]

Driver Insta llation 13 Figure 3-10. ESCON Configuration 7. As shown in Figure 3-11, the adapter should now be listed in the N etwork Adapters box . C licking Close will cause the system to configure the network and prompt you to restart the system. Figure 3-11. Network Settings Showing PBSA[...]

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ESCON Configuration 15 Chapter 4. ESCON C ONFIGURA TION Figure 4-1. ESCON Attached Controllers Overvie w ESCON controllers, including the PCI ESCON A dapter (PBSA) , can be co nnected to the mainframe in more than one fashion. As show n in Figure 4-1, Controller 1 is attached directl y to one of the mainfram e’s ESCON channels. Assuming the mainf[...]

16 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Finally, using both ESCON Directors and EMIF, it is possible for a single ESCON controller to communicate with multiple Logical Partitions ( LPARs) running on multiple mainframes, using multiple ESCON channe ls. Because an ESC ON controller ma y be attached to an ESCON director, whi ch ma y be connected to mu[...]

ESCON Configuration 17 Channel Link – The address of the ESCON director port that conne cts to the mainframe this device is to communicate with. The va lue range is from 01-FE hexadecimal. In Figure 4-2 the mainfram e uses a channel link address '02 ' to communicate with S erver 1. Server 1 uses a ch annel l ink address '01' t[...]

18 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Configur ation ESCON configuration may be defined and viewed from an y of the upper level software including the data link service for Micros oft’s Host Integration Server or SNA Server, data link control for Communications Server, TCP/ IP Passthrough, TCP/IP Direct Connect, or MPC+ for Windows. Clicking a [...]

ESCON Configuration 19 In Windows NT the ESCON configuration ma y be accessed through the system Control Panel. From the main screen of Control Panel double click the Network Ic o n (See Figure 4-4). Figure 4-4. Windows NT Control Panel Select t he Adapters tab (Figure 4-5). Figure 4-5. Network Adapters List[...]

20 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide The Bus-Tech PCI ESCON Adapter should be included in the list. Selecting the Bus-Tech ada pter and clicking P roperties will bring up the E SCON Configuration Screen (Figure 4-6). Figure 4-6. Bus-Tech’s ESCON Configuration Screen To configure a new d evice click A dd… Figure 4-7. Add Device Dialog Complet[...]

ESCON Configuration 21 device A0 and A1, enter 2. Optionall y e nter a Descripti on to be associated with this device. Remember that for TCP/ IP Passthrou gh and TCP/IP Direct Connect CTC c onnections you must define two con secutive devices. Additionally for TCP/ I P Passthrough the first device must be even numbered (00, 02, 20, 4 0, A0, etc.) Pr[...]

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TCP/ IP Direct Connect 23 Chapter 5. TCP/IP D IRECT C ONNECT TCP/IP Direct Connect s oftware included with the P CI ESCON Adapter p rovides high-performance, point-t o-point TCP/I P communications between a Windows server (Windows 2000 or W indows NT 4.0) and the mainframe. TCP/ I P Direct Connect operates over Channel-to-Channel (CTC) or Multi-Pa [...]

24 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide TCP/IP Direct Connect supports three link types across the ESCON channel: Channel-to-Channel (CTC), Hig h-Speed Access Services (HSAS) for UDP, or Multi- Path Channel Point-to-Point (MPCPTP). HSAS and MPCPTP require installation of MPC+ for Windows (MPC+). CTC links use two ESCON devices (one for read, one fo[...]

TCP/ IP Direct Connect 25 2. Click OK when Setup display s it’s W elcome dialog (Figure 5-4). Figure 5-4. TCP/IP Direct Connect Install Confirmation 3. The TCP/IP Direct Connect Propertie s dialog will display (Figure 5-5). Figure 5-5. TCP/IP Direct Connect Properties You must define the Link type and L ink p roperties in order to complete the in[...]

26 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide defined by the install you have just completed. Right click the connection and select Pro pe rt ie s (Figure 5-7). Figure 5-7. New Local Connection 6. Uncheck Client for Microsoft Ne tw orks , File and Pr inter Sharing for Microsoft Netw orks ,a n d DL C Protocol since these servic es are not supp orted on th[...]

TCP/ IP Direct Connect 27 7. Enter an IP address and Subnet mask to be associated with this link on the server. This is the address a mainframe-based application will use to establish contact with the Windows 2000 server (Fi gure 5-9). The address must be i n the same IP subnet as the address assigned to this link on the mainframe. Figure 5-9. TCP/[...]

28 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Deleting a Link To remove a previousl y installed TCP/I P Direct Connect link from Windows 2000, y ou must uninstall the TCP/I P Direct Connect Adapter. This is accomplished using the Device Manager in the Windows 2000 Computer Management utilit y (Figure 5-10). Figure 5-10. Removing a Link[...]

TCP/ IP Direct Connect 29 Windows NT The following step-b y-step procedure will in stall the TCP/ IP Direct Connect and configure it for use without MPC+. Installation a nd configuration of TCP/IP Direct Connect using MPC+ is discussed in the “ MPC+ for W indows NT Installation Guide ”. The PBSA driver must b e installed befor e TCP/IP Direct C[...]

30 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Figure 5-12. Adapter List with ESCON Adapter 3. Click the A dd button to add a new adapter. The Select Network Adapter dialog box will display a list of adapters includ ed with Windows NT (Figure 5-13.). Figure 5-13. Select Network Adapter 4. Click the Have Disk button. The Insert Disk dialog box will display[...]

TCP/ IP Direct Connect 31 Figure 5-14.Insert Disk 5. Insert the TCP/I P Direct Connect diskette into your floppy. Click OK . 6. The Select OEM Option dialog (Figure 5-15) will display TCP/IP Direct Connect. Click OK to install the driver. Figure 5-15. Select OEM Option 7. The TCP/IP Direct Connect Adapte r Properties screen fo r Channel-to-Channel [...]

32 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Figure 5-16. Adapter Properties You must define the Link type and L ink p roperties in order to complete the install. Please ref er to the Link Config uration section late r in this chapte r. 8. After defining the fields click C lose to save your values and return to the Network Adapters screen (Fi gure 5-17)[...]

TCP/ IP Direct Connect 33 9. Click on Bindings. Show bindings for all adapters (Figure 5-18). Check that only the TCP/IP Protocol is bound to the TCP/IP Direct C onnect Adapter. Disable an y other service or protocol bound to TCP/IP Direct Connect. Figure 5-18. Adapter Bindings 10. Click Close to end network confi guration. W indows NT will perform[...]

34 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide 11. Use your mouse to select TCP/I P Direct Connect from the list of Adapters bound to TCP/IP (Figure 5-20). Figure 5-20. Select TCP/IP Direct Connect 12. Enter an IP Address and Subnet Mask; defining the address that the mainframe will use to communicate with the server (Fi gure 5-21). Note that the mainfram[...]

TCP/ IP Direct Connect 35 Figure 5-21. Assigning an IP Address to the ESCON Adapter 13. Click OK . Windows NT will complete the binding process and prompt y o u to reboot the server. You m ust reboot for network ch anges to take affe ct. Insta llation of TCP/I P Direc t Connect is complete.[...]

36 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Link Configuration Figure 5-22. CTC Link Properties Figure 5-22 shows the pr operties that must be con figured for CTC Links. Complete these fields as follows: Mainframe I P Address – The IP address of the mainframe this connection is to communicate with . This must match t he HOME IP address assigned in t [...]

TCP/ IP Direct Connect 37 MTU – Maximum Transmission Unit must match what is def ined on the mainframe for this conne ction or packet loss will occur. Th e recommended MTU for CTC connections is 32000. To configure MPC+ links, either HSAS or MPCPTP, please refer to the MPC+ for Windows Installation Guide.[...]

38 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Mainf ram e Configu ration This section discusse s configuration of the ma inframe for use with TCP/IP Direct Connect over a Channel-to-Channel (CTC) link. Mainframe confi guration for Communications Server, SNA Server, TCP/IP Passthrough for Wi ndows NT, and MPC+ for Windows is discussed i n the user’s gui[...]

TCP/ IP Direct Connect 39 TC P/I P Pro f il e TCP/IP Direct Connect links require the IBM TCP/ I P protocol stack running on y our System/390. Your TCP/ IP Profile will need to be modified to support the new link. The following is an ex ample of the entries require d to define a conn ection: ; CTC connection DEVICE DEVCTC1 CTC a00 IOBUFFERSIZE 6553[...]

40 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Figure 5-23. Multiple TCP/IP Direct Connect ESCON Configuration *** CHPID STA TEMENTS *** CHPID PATH=((22 )),TYPE=CNC ,SWITCH=01,SHARED *** CNTL UNIT STATEMENTS *** CNTLUNIT CUNUM BR=002, CUADD=0, PATH=(22), UNI TAD D=((00,2)),U NIT=S CTC,LI NK=(CB) *** IODEVICE STATEM ENTS *** IODEVICE ADDRESS=(200,2 ),UNIT=[...]

TCP/ IP Direct Connect 41 TCP/IP R outing TCP/ IP Direct Connect i s a Network Driver Interface Spe cificati on (ND IS) compl iant adapter driver. TC P/IP Direct Connect makes t he PCI ESCON Adapt er appear exactl y like any other Network Interfac e Card (N IC) to the Windows server. As a result when TCP/ IP Direct Connect and a PCI ESC ON Adapter [...]

42 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Subnet 0 207.168.12.1 – 207.168.12.62 Subnet 1 207.168.12.65 – 207.168.12.126 Subnet 2 207.168.12.129 – 207.168.12.190 Subnet 3 207.168.12.193 – 207.168.12.254 As shown, the Ethernet segment makes up subnet 0 and the Token-Ring makes up subnet 1. Subnets 2 and 3 are currently not used. The router’s [...]

TCP/ IP Direct Connect 43 Figure 5-26. TCP/IP Direct Connect Configuration Screens Notice also that the subn et these two addr esses are in is different than the subnet of the server’s LAN adapter (207.168.12.68). Micro soft’s TCP/IP stack can be configured to automaticall y forward IP packets between network adapte rs as long as those adapters[...]

44 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Updating Workstat ion Configurations In most existing networks today it will not be necessary to update the TCP/I P configuration on a workstation in order to allow it to connect to the mainframe using an ESCON adapter and TCP/I P Direct Connect. Most workstations already point to an exist ing router and/or s[...]

TCP/ IP Direct Connect 45 Figure 5-28. Windows 95 TCP/IP Properties[...]

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Troubleshooting 47 Chapter 6. T ROUBLESHOOTING If your PCI ESCON Adapter fails to initiate successfully this ch apter will provide y ou with some general troubleshooting guidelines to help you identify and fix your problem. If after you have been through this troubleshooting chapter you are still unable to make your adapter work properl y ple ase r[...]

48 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide STEP 1. With y our server powered on, check to ma ke sure both LEDs are lit. If the top LED is Green and the bottom LED is Oran ge then the adapter h as successfull y completed POST and loade d firmware. This is the normal condition prior to starting the software. The adapter is operational. The bottom LED wi[...]

Troubleshooting 49 ESCON Configuration When the adapter loads t he emulation it also loads the ESCON device con figuration (see Chapter 4.). This configuration must match the configuration defined on your mainframe(s). In Windows 2000 you may display an ESCON adapter’s devi ce configuration using the Device Manag er in the Computer Management uti[...]

50 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Highlight the ESCON adapter and click P roperties. Figure 6-3. ESCON Device Configuration The ESCON Devices tab shows the devices confi gured for this adapter. Verify that the units defi ned here m atch those defined on the mainframe. Make sure you are using the co rrect device numbers in upper la yers of sof[...]

Troubleshooting 51 TCP/IP Direct Connect If TCP/ IP Direct Connect is configured with a link type of HSAS or MPCPTP, please refer to the section titled “Troubleshooting” in the “ MPC+ for Window s NT Installation Guide ”. In Windows 2000 the easiest way to tell if TCP/IP Direct Connect has failed to activate is to look at the s ystem’s co[...]

52 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide Figure 6-5. TCP/IP Direct Connect Properties ; CTC connection DEVICE DEVCTC1 CTC a40 LINK LINKCTC1 CTC 0 DEVCTC1 ; HOME 207.169.12.129 LINKCTC1 GATEWAY ; ; Direct Routes - Routes that are directly connected to my interfaces. ; ; Network First Hop Link Name Packet Size Subnet Mask Subnet Value 207.169.12.130 =[...]

Help and Servic e Informat ion 53 Help and Service Information If you have questions about y our new Bus-Tech p roduct, or require technical assistance, visit the Bus- Tech Web site at http:www.bustech.com . Y o u c a na l s og e t help and information through the Bus-Tech’s T echnical Support line, Monda y through Friday, 8:30 am – 5:00pm Ea[...]

54 PCI ESCON Adapter Installation Guide If possible, be at your computer. Your technical support repres entative might want to walk you through the problem during the call. Step 3: Placing the Call If you call after your warranty or maintenance con tract has expired, you might be charged a f ee. Support 8:30am – 5:00pm, Monday-Friday U.S.A. / Pue[...]

Help and Servic e Informat ion 55 Custom er Response If you have comments or suggestions regarding our products and documentation, please send them to: BUS-TECH, I NC. 129 MIDDLESEX TURNP IKE BURLINGTON, MA 01 803 ATTENTION: CUSTOMER SUPPORT Or, call us at: (781) 272 -8200 FAX: (781) 272-0342. Or, visit our Web Site at: www.bustech. com Bus-Tech PC[...]

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Technical specifi cations 57 Technical S peci fications Physical Attributes Dimensions Standard Full Siz e PCI A dapter Length 12.283” Height 4.2” Power Requirements 5.5 Amp. at + 5V DC 20 mAmp. at + 12V DC 20 mAmp. at - 12V DC Operatin g Temperat ure 10 o -4 0 o C Humidity Range 0% - 90% Standards PCI 2.1 Compliant Connectors ESCON ESCON MIC S[...]