Considerations
The LINK_STATION_OEM_SPECIFIC_DATA parameter defines a link station. Refer
to the following example from a .ACG configuration file:
LINK_STATION_OEM_SPECIFIC_DATA=(
OEM_LINK_DATA=(
OEM_DATA=010000000400000004000000030000000F00000001000000
OEM_DATA=0F000000DE01A8C0
)
)
Take the OEM_DATA fields and concatenate them in order, as follows:
010000000400000004000000030000000F000000010000000F000000DE01A8C0
Then
break that into 4-byte words:
01000000
04000000
04000000
03000000
0F000000
01000000
0F000000
DE01A8C0
Reverse the order of the bytes, as follows:
00000001
00000004
00000004
00000003
0000000F
00000001
0000000F
C0A801DE
The fields are as follows:
00000001: Link Type—only value allowed
00000004: DSAP (Remote SAP)
00000004: SSAP (Local SAP)
00000003: XID retry count (Connect retry count)
0000000F: XID retry timer (Connect timer)
00000001: Reserved
0000000A: Liveness timer (Inactivity timer)
C0A801DE: IP address (Remote IP address)
Note:
- All values are in hexadecimal notation.
- The names in parentheses are the parameter labels in the EEDLC Connection tab of the EEDLC link station definition in the SNA Node Configuration tool.
- Other than the IP address, all the values shown are the default values. There is no default IP address.
- When you change one of these values in the Node Configuration tool and save to the .ACG file, the relevant byte of OEM_DATA is changed in the configuration file.
For the IP address, convert each byte to decimal to obtain the IP address.
The above example converts to 192.168.1.222, as follows:
C0: 192
A8: 168
01: 1
DE: 222
If you enter a host name instead of an IP address, the IP address field
becomes the length of the host name, and the host name (in ASCII hex codes)
is appended, with a trailing 00 byte to mark the end. The bytes of the host
name are not swapped. See the following example:
LINK_STATION_OEM_SPECIFIC_DATA=(
OEM_LINK_DATA=(
OEM_DATA=010000000400000004000000030000000F00000001000000
OEM_DATA=0A000000150000006C6F63616C686F73742E6C6F63616C64
OEM_DATA=6F6D61696E00
)
)
Concatenation produces the following:
010000000400000004000000030000000F000000010000000A000000
150000006C6F63616C686F73742E6C6F63616C646F6D61696E00
Breaking it up into
words and swapping bytes (except the host name) produces the following:
00000001: Link Type—only value allowed
00000004: DSAP (Remote SAP)
00000004: SSAP (Local SAP)
00000003: XID retry count (Connect retry count)
0000000F: XID retry timer (Connect timer)
00000001: Reserved
0000000A: Liveness timer (Inactivity timer).
The range of valid values is 1–255 seconds.
6C6F63616C686F73742E6C6F63616C646F6D61696E:
Host name (localhost.localdomain)
00: End of host name marker