We're stuck on z/OS 1.10 until 3Q2011 at the earliest. But I'll look at it to see how it compares to CA-OPS.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Lowe > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 6:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS > > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:09:07 -0600, McKown, John > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email > to sms gateway. > What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU > efficient way > to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, > but since I > don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, > it appears that > I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one > individually. Yuck! > This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in > assembler to trap > all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU > efficient, but > not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to > another address space to actually process. I could write a > program to set up > an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU > efficient, although > perhaps more so than CA-OPS. > > > >What have I overlooked? > > > >What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other > than "on call" > people on the weekends and holidays. This means that a batch > job or some > other process could hang on a WTOR because we don't currently > have a way to > notify anybody that they need to take a look. The on-call person is > basically forced to work overtime to periodically logon to > the system and > use TSO and use SDSF to check out the system, or use an SMCS > VTAM console to > look and issue commands. TSO and SDSF is usually easier. How > does a total > "lights out" operation do this? > > > John, > have you looked at the AUTOR function that is > available with z/OS 1.12? > . > This might go some way to achieving what you are after > . > Roger > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
