APING

APING is the APPN version of the ping utility; it allows a management application to check the communications path from a local LU to a remote LU in the network.

CS/AIX APING is implemented using an internally-defined APPC TP. This TP sends data to the partner LU, and optionally receives data from the partner LU. If the TP completes successfully, the APING verb returns information about the time taken to allocate a conversation to the partner LU and to send and receive data.

The application must supply a VCB that is large enough to include a partner TP verification string of the requested size as well as the basic APING VCB structure; the returned data includes this string appended to the end of the basic structure.

This verb is intended for checking the path to an LU on a remote node. Using APING to check communications with a partner LU on the local node will impact the performance of other programs on the local computer, and is not recommended.

This verb must be issued to a running node.