Connectivity start options

Table 1. Start options that affect connectivity. These start options affect session establishment, termination, or search order, and can be displayed as a group with the DISPLAY VTAMOPTS,FUNCTION=CONNECT command.
Start option Description
ALSREQ Whether adjacent link station names are required to be in the default ALS list of independent LUs
AUTHLEN Whether VTAM® is enabled to pass transmission priority from one LEN node to another
CONNTYPE Whether a LEN connection or an APPN connection is established with type 2.1 PUs
CPCP The types of connections on which CP-CP sessions are allowed with adjacent nodes
DISCNTIM Amount of time VTAM delays deactivation of SSCP-PU session when there are no outstanding LU-LU session requests
DYNHPPFX Indicates if DYNHPPFX is not specified, then dynamic PUs created for HPR will be prefixed with the three characters, CNR. If DYNHPPFX=cc where cc is the two character prefix that you want, then dynamic PUs created for HPR will be prefixed with the two characters, cc. In these two cases, respectively, the dynamic PU names will have the format of CNRxxxxx or ccxxxxxx.
DYNPUPFX Specifies a two character prefix that is used in creating the dynamic PUs. This prefix will be used when generating names for these dynamically built PUs. The prefix defined by the start option will be used if DYNPUPFX is not coded on the group statement for the line under which the PU is built. A unique value will then be generated and concatenated to the defined prefix to create an eight character PU name.
DYNVNPFX Specifies the prefix to be used when generating the name for dynamic connection network PUs
ENSEMBLE Specifies whether this z/OS® Communications Server will permit connectivity to the intraensemble data network (IEDN) and to the intranode management network (INMN). Access to these networks is through OSA-Express3 or later features that are configured in OSX and OSM modes.
HPR Specifies the level of High-Performance Routing (HPR) support provided by VTAM
HPRNCPBF Specifies whether HPR can be used although it may cause session data to travel through an NCP twice
IQDCHPID Specifies superfast connectivity replacing XCF links
MPCACT Specifies whether activations of MPC subchannel groups are to be suspended if the minimum number of read and write subchannels is not available, either because they are offline or because no valid path exists to the connecting host. VTAM automatically resumes activation when the minimum number of subchannels becomes available. This option applies only to MPC groups consisting of CTC connections.
NNSPREF Specifies the name of the preferred network node server for this end node
SACONNS Specifies if subarea connections will be used
SLOWVAL Specifies that a network node which has been placed in a SLOWDOWN mode can now allow a maximum SLOWDOWN time to be set
SNVC Maximum number of networks searched for a resource by this border node
SSDTMOUT The amount of time that a switched PU can go without a session before the connection is dropped
VRTG Whether virtual-route-based transmission groups connections are requested when SSCP-SSCP session is established
VRTGCPCP Whether CP-CP sessions are supported over the virtual-route-based transmission group
XCFGRPID Specifies the group ID suffix that VTAM will use when joining groups in the sysplex. VTAM will join groups ISTXCFvv and ISTCFSvv, where vv is the value provided with XCFGRPID
XCFINIT Specifies whether VTAM will join a sysplex group at VTAM initialization and establish the capability for XCF connectivity to other VTAM nodes in the sysplex
XNETALS Whether VTAM can establish sessions with LUs in adjacent networks