TCP/IP and VTAM Network Consulting

Inside Products specializes in consulting for mainframe based TCP/IP and VTAM networks. Our consultants are former TCP/IP and VTAM systems programmers for large organizations which have implemented large TCP/IP or VTAM networks on the mainframe.

TCP/IP System Services

We can help you implement and customize new versions of mainframe TCP/IP or VTAM. This includes:

• TCP/IP upgrades, conversions, customization and support
• TCP/IP planning, implementation, and support
• TCP/IP network consolidations
• VTAM upgrades, conversions, customization and support
• VTAM planning, implementation, and support
• VTAM network consolidations
• Server installation (SNMP, SMTP, HTTP server, FTP, TN3270)
• OSA Express or SNMP Direct agent installation, support, conversion
• NetView installation and support

Network Health Check

We can also do a periodic health check for your mainframe TCP/IP network. This includes:

• A 10 point tune up for your TCP/IP stack, applications, and network
  1. Analyze response time for applications (host and network time)
  2. Analyze response time for individual connections (host and network time)
  3. Identify congestion or network traffic errors on subnets
  4. Identify paging, queues, high CPU usage for TCP sockets or TCP address space
  5. Analyze TCP profile
  6. Identify paging, queues, high CPU usage for individual FTPs
  7. Identify routes and applications with packet fragmentation
  8. Identify excessive idle or hanging connections
  9. Identify connections in frequent error status
  10. Identify application configuration problems (keepalive required, etc)
  
  
• Traffic Benchmark
  1. Top applications (connections, connect time, bytes transmitted, time of peak usage)
  2. Top users (connections, connect time, bytes transmitted, time of peak usage)
  3. Enterprise Extender usage (connections, connect time, bytes transmitted, time of peak usage)
  4. Interface usage (connections, connect time, bytes transmitted, time of peak usage, throughput)
  5. IP throughput
  
  
• Deliverables
  We will provide:
  
  1. A written report
  2. Presentation
  
  
• Help Fix Problems
  Of course, we can also help you fix the problems which the Network Health Check has pointed out.

Consulting Contacts

For more information, please call us at 831.659.8360, or email Consulting.