Can be done in a few 100 lines of code. IEFSSVT REQUEST=CREATE IEFSSI REQUEST=OPTION IEFSSI REQUEST=PUT IEFSSI REQUEST=ACTIVATE
Probably a useful test stub too if you have a few function codes added. On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 1:40 PM Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 20:03, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > > 1. Is there any convenient "hack" for testing whether my SVC 99 is > operating > > correctly and so forth? Anyone have any bright ideas how to test SVC 99 > > SUBSYS allocation when one does not have subsystem XXXX? Suppose for > example > > that I wrote a test program that would try an OBTAIN against my > allocation. > > Is there any way to come up with a subsystem name that will at least > succeed > > through allocation? Is there a CBT program that implements some sort of > > subsystem (and is not a big deal of its own)? > > You can write a minimal subsystem of your own. The well-known place to > start is GPSAM on the CBT site. http://cbttape.org/cbtdowns.htm > > GPSAM (file 290 and another version in file 648) is indeed remarkable > in that it's 45 years old, and the code and doc are still 99% valid on > current z/OS. To say nothing of the high quality of Howard Gilbert's > short but to the point doc. It's entirely possible that GPSAM may > already provide the infrastructure for what you want to do, though > much of its initialization would be done differently if written today. > > (Actually I self plagiarized the above from a posting I made here > several years ago.) > > If nothing else, read Howard Gilbert's doc on how this kind of > subsystem works. It certainly doesn't discuss OBTAIN, and I have no > idea if the OBTAIN function includes a subsystem call to gather info, > or if it's a conceptually wrong thing to be doing. I suspect the > latter, but if OBTAIN works with your vendor subsystem... > > Tony H. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
