We are looking into the possibility of migrating our OS/390 TSM server to mainframe Linux. One of the issues we are looking into is management facilities. Our current inclination is to define a named pipe as a file event receiver and have a Perl script read from the named pipe and respond to various messages. This appears to have two advantages over running dsmadmc with the -console option and piping its output to a script. First, it eliminates the need to rejoin multi-line messages and figure out when the last line of each message has arrived. Second, the named pipe eliminates some inter-process synchronization issues. A dsmadmc process will not start when the TSM server is down or in the early stages of initialization. Has anyone used a named pipe as a file event receiver in a Unix or Linux environment?
