Re: QYASPOL (waiting for iASP availability on IPL)

I agree, always struggle with CL... 

Chris...

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From: C400-L <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Kelly Beard
Sent: August 30, 2022 9:37 AM
To: Bare Metal Programming IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [C400-L] 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-fro
> m-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) < 
> [email protected]>
> 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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