Re: QYASPOL (waiting for iASP availability on IPL)

Yeah, the C/C++ struct I got down, it's how to deal with quirky CL.  Thank
you.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 4:15 PM Chris Hird <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Even found a CLP reference 😊
>
>
> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.1?topic=messages-receiving-message-from-program-procedure-that-has-ended
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C400-L <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Kelly Beard
> Sent: August 29, 2022 5:11 PM
> To: Bare Metal Programming IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <
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> Subject: Re: [C400-L] 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 <[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
> > To: Bare Metal Programming IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <
> > [email protected]>
> > 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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