Reviewing TCP/IP changes history

Your Workbench PC records “before and after” TCP/IP settings made from your platform connections in an ipchanges.bog file. If necessary, you can review changes made from your Workbench using the following procedure.

In the Workbench Nav tree, expand “My Host” and then “My File System.”
Expand “User Home”, then expand “ipchanges.bog.”

Child folders are “date-named” using the following convention:

<yyyymmddhhmmss> for example, “d20180113153640” for 2018 Jan 13 3:36pm
Expand any folder of interest (right-click, select Views > Property Sheet). Note the included decoded “modTime” value, for example, “13-Jan-2018 03:36 PM EST” (vs "d20180113153640").
Underneath each folder are two objects:
- priorValue — TCP/IP settings that existed before this change.
- newValue — TCP/IP settings that existed after this change.
In the property sheet, expand a priorValue or newValue to see settings.

NOTE: If you have a platform connection open (to any host), you can also review this same history of IP changes made from your Workbench to remote platforms. At the bottom of the TCP/IP Configuration view, click “Audit” . This shows this same ipChanges.bog folder and all child change entry folders in a property sheet view. Expand a change folder to see a decoded “modTime” value, for example, “13-Jan-2018 03:36 PM EST” (vs "d20180113153640"). Expand a “priorValue” or “newValue” in the view to see the settings.

Figure 20. Accessing ipchanges.bog in open platform connection

Reviewing TCP/IP changes history

Figure 20. Accessing ipchanges.bog in open platform connection

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