Look at WAKEUP. It can trap on events, like messages from DIRMAINT, or the arrival of a RDR file. It can also be set to time out if none of the monitored events occurs in whatever you consider to be a reasonable time. When it exits, it stacks information on why. --Mike
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi: Although I've done a bit of maintenance on our company's VM systems, I'm a raw, brand spanking new VM script writer, so forgive me if I'm missing the obvious. I'm sure I'll have many d'oh! moments. I'd like to write some code to fetch dirmaint's disk allocation maps (dirmaint dirmap and possibly dirmaint send extent control) and perform some analysis on it. Specifically asking questions like how much free dasd we have in various volume groups, how fragmented our dasd allocation is, and the like. My question is how may I, in a rexx exec, know when the results of a dirmaint command like dirmap are complete, if it failed, when any result is available in my reader, and what reader file# to receive? Thanks, and apologies for the beginner question. - -- Pat -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIWBuiNObCqA8uBswRAk9GAJ9t3mEGO2mRDmi6cIVY8+r3WKM+rACfWEcm GkFx89jcLP5bm0hTqfowZyU= =+cxB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
