Dirmaint has a programming interface for synchronous communication. See Appendix D of the "Directory Maintenance Facility Commands Reference" manual for more information on it. It uses WAKEUP under the covers to wait for the response from the DIRMAINT service machine.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Patrick Spinler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----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 > -- Bruce Hayden Linux on System z Advanced Technical Support IBM, Endicott, NY
