If you have a scheduling system, for instance, could it detect when CICS is up and then submit the job?
Or and automation product that can monitor for the DFH messages and notify the task? F taskname,CICS IS UP Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Richard Kuebbing > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 10:50 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Looking for a way for a batch job to know if CICS is all the way > up? > > This borders on silly but has been used in other contexts: Use status file > which is set as the last thing in startup procedure. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 12:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Looking for a way for a batch job to know if CICS is all the way up? > > I am looking for a way for a batch job to know if CICS is all the way up, > i.e., has issued the "DFHSI1517 CICSTMS Control is being given to CICS." > message. > > I can look at the ASCB to know if a CICS is executing, but I don't see a way > to know that it is really operational. > > -- > Tony Thigpen > >
