I guess I don't understand what David is asking..I thought that the z/Pdt cmd 
'oprmsg ' routes a message or command to z/os from Linux .......

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

On Jul 23, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Frank Swarbrick <frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Don't know if z/OS itself is part of this, but have you looked at 
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/?
> 
> 
> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net>
>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
>> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 2:17 PM
>> Subject: Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL 
>> SHUTDOWN by printing a message
>> 
>> How can I go about submitting a requirement for z/OS to acknowledge and 
>> handle the same external interrupt as VM, VSE and Linux use to trigger a 
>> controlled shutdown (or at least acknowledge it by printing a message we can 
>> capture via console automation and trigger the shutdown ourselves)?  
>> 
>> For those of you who haven't seen it, VM, VSE and Linux register for a 
>> specific fully-architected hardware external interrupt (in the PoPs) that 
>> indicates that the LPAR is being shut down. VSE issues a message, VM 
>> reflects the interrupt to all virtual machines which are registered to 
>> receive it, and Linux (if configured to register for it) triggers a 
>> user-specified command (usually 'shutdown -h now'). I'd like to have z/OS 
>> register for that interrupt, and at least print a unique message if/when 
>> that specific interrupt arrives.
>> 
>> Any suggestions on how to get this done without taking decades? It doesn't 
>> seem like a lot to ask for, and it's a fully-defined legitimate hardware 
>> interrupt that z/OS ought to be able to handle if it got one. 
>> 
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