Displaying SMC-R information

You can use the Netstat command and the DISPLAY TCPIP,,STOR command to display Shared Memory Communications over RDMA (SMC-R) information.

For more information about these commands, see z/OS Communications Server: IP System Administrator's Commands.

Netstat ALL/-A report

You can use the Netstat ALL/-A report to determine whether a TCP connection is using SMC-R communications. You can filter the report by using the SMCID/-U filter and specifying an SMC-R link group ID or link ID value as the filter. When a filter is specified, only those TCP connections that traverse the specified SMC-R link group or link are displayed.

Netstat ALLConn/-a and Netstat COnn/-c reports

You can use the Netstat ALLConn/-a and Netstat COnn/-c reports to obtain TCP connection information. You can filter the reports by using the SMCID/-U filter and specifying an SMC-R link group ID or link ID value as the filter. When a filter is specified, only those TCP connections that traverse the specified SMC-R link group or link are displayed.

Netstat CONFIG/-f report

You can use the Netstat CONFIG/-f report to display the settings on the GLOBALCONFIG statement, which includes the SMCR parameter and its subparameters.

Netstat DEvlinks/-d report

You can use the Netstat DEvlinks/-d report to display whether an IPAQENET or IPAQENET6 interface is eligible for SMC-R, and if so, information about the associated 10GbE RoCE Express® interfaces (also referred to as associated RNIC interfaces) that are in use. The physical network ID (PNetID) is also displayed, which can be useful in determining why 10GbE RoCE Express interfaces are not associated.

You can also use the Netstat DEvlinks/-d report to display information about the SMC-R links and SMC-R link groups that traverse a 10GbE RoCE Express interface, including the redundancy level for the link group as described in High availability considerations. To obtain this information, you must specify the SMC modifier on the Netstat command.

You can filter the Netstat report by using the SMCID/-U filter and specifying an SMC-R link ID or link group ID as the filter:

Netstat PORTList/-o report

You can use the Netstat PORTList/-o report to display the settings of the NOSMCR parameter for the defined TCP port or range of ports.

Netstat STATS/-S report

You can use the Netstat STATS/-S report to display SMC-R usage statistics.

DISPLAY TCPIP,,STOR output

You can use the DISPLAY TCPIP,,STOR command to display current SMC-R storage usage. Values are displayed for remote memory buffers (RMBs), denoted as SMC-R RECV MEMORY, and staging buffers, denoted as SMC-R SEND MEMORY. This storage is limited by the setting of the FIXEDMEMORY subparameter on the GLOBALCONFIG SMCR parameter. The SMC-R information is displayed only when the SMC-R function is enabled or was previously enabled for this TCP/IP stack.