Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. What have I overlooked? What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on call people on the weekends and holidays. This means that a batch job or some other process could hang on a WTOR because we don't currently have a way to notify anybody that they need to take a look. The on-call person is basically forced to work overtime to periodically logon to the system and use TSO and use SDSF to check out the system, or use an SMCS VTAM console to look and issue commands. TSO and SDSF is usually easier. How does a total lights out operation do this? John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:09:07 -0600 McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: :I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. I would not think that it would cost that much to have OPS check every message - it already traps them anyway. Other options - OPSMVS )TOD rule to check for outstanding WTORs, screen scraper on a PC console, . -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
Hi D R;R ? On 11/24/2010 11:09 AM, McKown, John wrote: I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. What have I overlooked? What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on call people on the weekends and holidays. This means that a batch job or some other process could hang on a WTOR because we don't currently have a way to notify anybody that they need to take a look. The on-call person is basically forced to work overtime to periodically logon to the system and use TSO and use SDSF to check out the system, or use an SMCS VTAM console to look and issue commands. TSO and SDSF is usually easier. How does a total lights out operation do this? John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
John: Maybe you could have a Rexx that wakes up every x minutes and does a D R,R to process outstanding messages. This script will then email/sms you the WTOR. On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:09 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. What have I overlooked? What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on call people on the weekends and holidays. This means that a batch job or some other process could hang on a WTOR because we don't currently have a way to notify anybody that they need to take a look. The on-call person is basically forced to work overtime to periodically logon to the system and use TSO and use SDSF to check out the system, or use an SMCS VTAM console to look and issue commands. TSO and SDSF is usually easier. How does a total lights out operation do this? John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- When God wishes to punish us, he answers our prayers. The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot I am as you, in you, for you. One as you in all, as all, forever. My call is your call. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:09:07 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. What have I overlooked? What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on call people on the weekends and holidays. This means that a batch job or some other process could hang on a WTOR because we don't currently have a way to notify anybody that they need to take a look. The on-call person is basically forced to work overtime to periodically logon to the system and use TSO and use SDSF to check out the system, or use an SMCS VTAM console to look and issue commands. TSO and SDSF is usually easier. How does a total lights out operation do this? John, have you looked at the AUTOR function that is available with z/OS 1.12? . This might go some way to achieving what you are after . Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
We're stuck on z/OS 1.10 until 3Q2011 at the earliest. But I'll look at it to see how it compares to CA-OPS. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Lowe Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 6:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:09:07 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. What have I overlooked? What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on call people on the weekends and holidays. This means that a batch job or some other process could hang on a WTOR because we don't currently have a way to notify anybody that they need to take a look. The on-call person is basically forced to work overtime to periodically logon to the system and use TSO and use SDSF to check out the system, or use an SMCS VTAM console to look and issue commands. TSO and SDSF is usually easier. How does a total lights out operation do this? John, have you looked at the AUTOR function that is available with z/OS 1.12? . This might go some way to achieving what you are after . Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
Sounds doable. And I could just use a CA-OPS/MVS TOD rule to do it. Someone has pointed out that CA-OPS/MVS is already trapping all console messages and doing a match against the MSG rules, followed by a dispatch of any REXX MSG rule(s) which match the message id. So putting in a well coded REXX CA-OPS MSG rule may not add that much overhead. The plus of a MSG rule is that I don't need to keep track of whether I have already dispatched the WTOR out via an SMS message. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roberto Halais Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 6:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS John: Maybe you could have a Rexx that wakes up every x minutes and does a D R,R to process outstanding messages. This script will then email/sms you the WTOR. On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:09 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. What have I overlooked? What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on call people on the weekends and holidays. This means that a batch job or some other process could hang on a WTOR because we don't currently have a way to notify anybody that they need to take a look. The on-call person is basically forced to work overtime to periodically logon to the system and use TSO and use SDSF to check out the system, or use an SMCS VTAM console to look and issue commands. TSO and SDSF is usually easier. How does a total lights out operation do this? John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- When God wishes to punish us, he answers our prayers. The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot I am as you, in you, for you. One as you in all, as all, forever. My call is your call. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http
Re: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 05:09 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one
individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient.
I have a console monitor written in REXX that runs 'round the clock, and
which has used 600 CPU seconds in the last 17 days (my last IPL). I
know you're CPU-constrained, but five minutes of CPU spread over two
weeks doesn't break the bank here.
In REXX it's easy to screen all console traffic and watch for e.g.
messages with MDBGHOLD set - nondeletable messages.
GETMSG_RC = GETMSG('CONSMSG.'WAIT_TIME)
IF GETMSG_RC 4 THEN DO /* GETMSG ERROR, SNO */
SAY 'GETMSG return code =' GETMSG_RC
EXIT GETMSG_RC
END
IF GETMSG_RC = 4 THEN DO /* PROBABLE TIMEOUT */
ITERATE
END
IF CONSMSG.0 0 THEN DO
... parse CONSMSG.nn for message content, or
IF (CONSMSG.MDBGHOLD = 'YES') THEN DO
...
END
END
ELSE DO
... no message text means this might be a DOM
IF CONSMSG.MDBGDOM = YES THEN DO
... handle deleted messages
What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on
call people on the weekends and holidays.
We too. I watch mostly for nondeletable console messages and parse
message lines for exceptions (IDMS has an open WTOR all day long for
example) so we don't get bugged about routine stuff. I got fancy and
implemented an escalation schedule - a list of people are paged one at a
time, at intervals - until the trigger message is DOM-ed or one of the
paged individuals hit 'reply' on their blackberries.
Lionel's XMITIP is the cat's meow, BTW.
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