How To Guides for TCP/IP on z/OS

TSO commands to test TCP/IP connectivity

Test connectivity to another host

ping hostname
ping ipaddr

ping will fail if ICMP requests are dropped by the target host or blocked by a router somewhere in the network path. Therefore, this should be first tried when the connection is working, to ensure that a failure is due to actual network connectivity problems.

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