On 08/07/14 08:55, Jim McAlpine wrote:
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Peter Relson <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm not sure what knowing if you're "in any z/OS instance of a SYSPLEX"
buys you, but if you want to know:
Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology Design
I agree that is not very useful information, but that is not what I'm
after. Our application consists of a transactional part which runs under
CICS and several batch type server address spaces all doing DB2 work.
Traditionally the CICS and batch server address spaces have run in the same
z/OS instance and we have a CICS transaction that searches the ASCB chain
for the names of the batch server address spaces so that the CICS users can
tell if they are running and if not then they can start them up. We now
have a client who wishes for performance or load balancing or whatever
reason to run the batch server stuff in another lpar of the sysplex in a
DB2 data sharing environment. That all works fine, but the CICS users now
can't tell if the batch servers are up and running and I was hoping there
was some way from within a CICS transaction to query whether the batch
server jobs were running anywhere in the sysplex. It seems that that is not
possible from the replies so far.
Regards
Jim Mc
Here's a somewhat silly though. If you're at the zOS 1.13 level, and in
a parallel sysplex your batch jobs can use XCF Notepad services to set a
flag that they're up somewhere in the sysplex, which your CICS
transaction can query.
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