I have a need to recognize certain events (creation of a file, completion of a JOB, etc) and send basic information about each event to a Windows process near real-time.
The Windows process would be a RESTful web server deployed on the Intranet alongside the z/OS box. I have been out of the SYSPROG loop for quite a while, but I seem to recall that the SMF exits are a good place to detect these events. But I know that the SMF exits can't do anything involving a WAIT, so the only thing the exit could do would be to post the information to another address space cross-memory. That address space (STARTED task?) could then act as a HTTPS client and send the data to the outboard server. I have been reading about the "z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit". Would this work for the HTTPS client? Whatever I create I need it to work in a vanilla z/OS environment V2.1 or after (no CICS etc.). Does this sound like I am on track? Or is there a better way? Note: only events for selected files/jobs would be transmitted. Files would need to match a list of patterns, jobs to match a list of USERS. So it would not be a high volume interface. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
