> From: Phil Smith <p...@voltage.com> > Couldn't CP PVMSG send something that automation could pick up? I realize > it's a bit of a > kludge, but it could do it: your z/VM automation would listen for SIGNAL > SHUTDOWN and > then signal the z/OS guest(s) using PVMSG.
I can see how that could work, but shouldn't z/OS be able to handle this natively? I mean, it could get this signal in a bare LPAR, and it seems like something it should handle as a defensive measure. It'd be a valuable defense against "oops, I deactivated the wrong LPAR" by clumsy people. It's also the usual argument that automation tools inside z/OS have access to a lot of state information that would be hard to extract using VM-based interfaces, and are a lot more in tune with this kind of stuff. Anything's possible given enough time and code, but that sounds like a lot of time and a lot of code. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
