Enter a job name or indicate that these ports are blocked.

An application is started using a JCL job. This job name represents the started application. To reserve a port for a particular application enter the job name of the application.

The job name must:

There are several special job names:

  1. OMVS indicates the port is reserved for any OE application except those using the Pascal API.

  2. * indicates the port is reserved for any application.

  3. INTCLIEN indicates the port is reserved for the TN3270 server. TCP/IP currently provides two msys for Setup services. If you are using the service that provides TN3270 server configuration then you are not allowed to enter this job name. TN3270 ports are reserved automatically when you configure your TN3270 server.

You can also indicate you want the port blocked from any application use. You indicate this by selecting "Blocked".