Since the discussion has turned to experience with automation, perhaps I can throw in a bit of mine.
When running networking hands-on classes, I needed automation to start systems up and then switch to different "student environments" as one group finished their time and another started. With automation in place I could devote time to the students rather than slavishly following the progress - or otherwise - of the 5 to 8 MVS systems (depending on the class). With the NetView facilities of the late 80's all the pieces were in place to be able to achieve full automation - which included connecting up the hardware channel addresses to the MVS systems in the underlying VM. My objective was complete automation for system startup to the point where students could start to operate their VTAMs - or - the same point, having closed down the system as far as restarting JES2. The reason for restarting JES2 was to enable the students to operate with their own JES2 NJE networking if they wanted to. This probably doesn't make sense without mentioning that part of the advanced learning was that student's designed their own networking exercises. The complete automation included - why not?- eliminating all unnecessary console messages. This objective was achieved but perhaps too comprehensively. My colleagues now complained that nothing appeared to be happening and how would they know if, indeed, nothing *was* happening, To meet this new requirement, I created a "flag" system so that each major task in the progress of the automation, such as the initiation of JES2, was associated with a retained message which was created when the task was begun and deleted when the task was complete. When all of VTAM, the network , as opposed to the automation, NetView, CICS and TSO messages has been deleted, the system was ready for student work. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "John S. Giltner, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 01 September, 2006 3:44 AM Subject: Re: IPL intervals > As others have stated, automating your IPL process will help alot. > Our shutdown and IPL process are automated. We use NetView for system > automation. > ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
