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amit4u79

Hi,

I have the following JCL which uses a system program PING to ping an IP address in our production environment. Now we have to do a similar of this JCL through rexx as we want to trap the SYSPRINT output to check if the PING was successful. Pls note that I cannot use TSO PING as my automation tool does not support OUTTRAP TSO function, so this is the only way I would be able to trap if the PING was successful. The JCL :

amit4u79 · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:48 am Post subject:

Also, the SYSPRINT data set does not contain any data. Kindly assist.
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amit4u79 · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:08 am Post subject:

Hi All, just to add the JCL run is successful but when I use something like:

"EX 'dsnname(PING)' 'ipaddress'"

It gives me an error:

IKJ56524I COMMAND SYSTEM ERROR+
IKJ56524I IKJCT43A RETURN CODE 99

But there is no good explaination of this error message in TSO manuals.

There is no data in SYSOUT or SYSPRINT data set. Kindly assist.

Regards,
- Amit.
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kolusu · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:01 am Post subject:

amit4u79,

Why are you trying to a allocate steplib DD dynamically? You cannot dynamically allocate steplib,joblib datasets. Check this which explains the error.

amit4u79 · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject:

Hi Kolusu,

As I added I have now added in the rexx to execute the program PING directly from the data set where it is residing i.e. I do a "EX 'DATASETNAME(PING)' 'IPADDRESS'".

But even then the rexx does not run fine. I knew that I could not use these DD names and so I just called the program direclty from where it is residing, which is what JCL would otherwise do. But even then as I said I am not able to get anything in the SYSPRINT data set, which otherwise when run through JCL gives something like "Ping # 1 response took...."

Pls help me as to what else needs to be done here. Am I missing anything, as I am exactly doing everything which JCL is doing i.e. do all required allocations and then execute the program PING and expect something to be written to SYSPRINT data set.

Regards,
- Amit.
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German Castillo · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:23 am Post subject:

Executing directly from the load dataset is my preferred method.

Check out for messages from the program you are executing. There may even be some datasets allocated dinamically, check it out in your JOBLOG once you test it in batch. Also the same initial program may be calling another modules dinamically, and they are not in your usual search concatenation, in this case you may have a message issuing a S806 message.

However, if you happen to have several modules which you want to execute, and still be able to use the select Cmd, you can libdef your loadlib not as STEP/JOB LIB and other related ddnames for the reasons exposed above. Try to LIBDEF it to ISPLLIB or ISPLUSR instead, normal searching methods still apply, with minor execptions. All this is fully covered and detailed accordingly in the ISPF Services Guide, search for it in the manuals section.
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