Re: QYASPOL (waiting for iASP availability on IPL)

Yeah.  Right now I'l looking for how to code the error code parameter.
Finding this stuff is like looking for a needle.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 4:04 PM Chris Hird <chrish-lbwoW8fqX/[email protected]>
wrote:

> Kelly,
>
> Sorry just thought about this, the QYASPOL will only return an error if it
> cannot get the data back, if the iASP is up you will have no error
> information? Does that make sense in additional to the last note?
>
> You should check if Error Code bytes Available is greater than 0 else the
> API has generated the list.
>
> Chris..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C400-L <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Kelly Beard
> Sent: August 29, 2022 4:32 PM
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> Subject: [C400-L] QYASPOL (waiting for iASP availability on IPL)
>
> I don't do CL much, but occasionally I can fake my way through it.  We
> have in our startup program a brain-dead DLYJOB(900) to allow time for an
> iASP to come up, then we start our business processes once we think it's
> ready.
> 900 seconds is 15 minutes, a really long time.  We recently turned on
> another CPU and upgraded our storage to the latest NVM or whatever IBM is
> calling it - basically we have no more spinning disks.  I thought I'd get
> clever and write 'something' that sits in a loop waiting for  the targeted
> iASP to become ready, then I could unload the requisite RUNJVA commands
> that start business stuff up.  Then I wouldn't have to be up at 2AM on
> Sunday morning to do this manually.  Our iASP is called 'DATADEV'.  I've
> had a dilly of a time finding a good CL representation of the error code
> parameter, but there are other parameters to fix right now too.  Presently
> the first SNDPGMMSG prints 'YASP0100', which it should.  The second one
> prints nothing at the moment, the third, random garbage, probaby because
> the CHGVAR is just some
>
> This is something I have in-progress.  If anyone has something better than
> this, hit me up.  I'd appreciate it.
>
> PGM
> DCL VAR(&RCVVAR) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(64)
> DCL VAR(&RCVLEN) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(4)
>
> DCL VAR(&LISTINFO) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(80)
> DCL VAR(&NUMRECSRET) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(80) DCL VAR(&NUMFILTERS) TYPE(*CHAR)
> LEN(80) DCL VAR(&FILTERINFO) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(80) DCL VAR(&ERRCOD)
> TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(4)
>
> DCL VAR(&FMTNAM) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(8) VALUE('YASP0100') SNDPGMMSG
> MSG(&FMTNAM)
>
> CHGVAR VAR(%SST(&RCVVAR 64 1)) VALUE('X') CHGVAR VAR(%BIN(&RCVLEN))
> VALUE(128)
>
> CALL PGM(QSYS/QYASPOL) PARM(&RCVVAR &RCVLEN &LISTINFO &NUMRECSRET
> &NUMFILTERS &FILTERINFO &FMTNAM &ERRCOD) SNDPGMMSG MSG('Error code stuff '
> *CAT &ERRCOD) SNDPGMMSG MSG(&RCVLEN)
>
> ENDPGM
>
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