Yes - the accepted way to do this is to use EMCS consoles. A few gotcha's waiting for you in the darkness :
(1) Name your EMCS console carefully - beware that other consoles active in the sysplex using the same name can generate confusion and extra return and reason codes to handle (2) To get a response, use the CART keyword on the MGCRE - however, note that not all operator commands respond using the CART (it depends on the software that gets control to generate the response). (3) To handle (2), I would advise some sort of timer to pop after "nn" seconds and give up waiting for a response. I think the data shown by SDSF on the LOG command (not opercmd responses) is gotten via spool browse services (or OPERLOG) rather than an EMCS with unsolicited messages. Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.781.684.2305 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: 15 March 2012 14:31 To: [email protected] Subject: How to? Receive response to a z/OS command issued by a program Yes, I'm trying something weird again. I just wrote a quick little HLASM program to issue commands via MGCRE. But I think I'm expecting too much for too little. I'd like to get the response. Which, from looking at the book, makes me think that I need to use the MCSOPER in order to have a EMCS console. Is this how it works? Is there anything else I should be looking at? I guess what I'll end up accomplishing, if anything, is an equivalent to the SDSF LOG capability. In which case, maybe I should just use the SDSF REXX interface instead. Or, if I really want to be weird, the SDSF Java interface. -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
