Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:54:45 +0100
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From: Robert Bardos <Robert.Bardos@ZUGERKB.CH>
Subject: Re: Started tasks initiation
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Hi Millie.
The first question is (and I suppose the answer is yes): does Control-M have
to know about the state of the respective CICS regions?
If the answer were 'no' then - as has been suggested - having CICS write out
a message that gets picked up by your automation package would be the way to
go.
If Control-M (where 5.0.4 was the last version I worked with) has to know
then it either 'informs itself' by means of the CMEM subsystem mechanism
(which in its simplest form can react to an IEFBR14 job where the jobname is
used as trigger) or has to be informed by IOASET as you wrote.
IIRC there is also the possibility to have your CICS region submit a job
that invokes the vendor supplied KSL routine CTMSUB (through procedure
CTMRKSL?/IOARKSL?). This way you would be using Control-M's job/stc
submission mechanisms with many of its bells and whistles. You might want to
look into this as well.
That's about all I remember after not having worked with Control-M for more
than a year.
HTH ... Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: Millie Rivero [mailto:mrivero@PRINCESSCRUISES.COM]
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 5:54 PM
Hi Robert.
What I'm thinking about doing now is to submit a job from CICS, which
executes a proc that executes Control-M's IOSET to post a "region up" event
which will trigger another Control-M job to start up the next region, and so
on. Sounds to me like a complicated deal. There is got to be a better way
for me to do this.
TIA -Millie
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Hi Millie,
Just one more suggestion:
Control-M has a feature once called CMEM (Control-M Event Manager) that can
react to events like a dataset being cataloged/deleted and a few others. You
could pretty well use this feature to launch your started task indirectly
that is by submitting a job from a CICS program that triggers one of the
events that CMEM can react to.
PS: this statement is based on memory and that - as we all know - tends to
fade away. But the feature should be there. It's name might have changed.
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: Millie Rivero [mailto:mrivero@PRINCESSCRUISES.COM]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 6:26 PM
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My dilemma is that we are migrating to a new scheduling package, Control-M.
Our old scheduler had a feature where you could schedule events based on
console messages. I'm trying to find a way to schedule the recycling of
non-production regions via Control-M. We do have Candle's AF/Operator. I'm
looking at using it instead of the batch scheduler. Millie
>
> Is is possible to start up an MVS task from a CICS program ? We
> submit jobs to Jes via the SPOOL API commands, but we have one case
> where we need the job to actually be a started task.
>
> TIA - Millie
>
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