On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 14:47:45 -0500, Stan Weyman <stan.wey...@emc.com> wrote:
> The sample code is ok but nothing that will help that much. One of the two examples is specifically for the ENF interface BCPii provides for, among many other things, getting return code info for things such as issuing z/OS commands. The return code you receive from BCPii simply means BCPii was able to issue its call, not that the specific function you were attempting worked <sigh>. To get the results of some BCPii calls, you need to code an ENF exit. Another ENF interface is for Operating System message tracking. Seems to work ok as long as the operating system message isn't too long, then it doesn't work so good <g>. Given how 'young' this product is, there are problems I've come across. > > Stan, I haven't seen the sample BCPii code but the ENF stuff that you refer to has been there since around 1990 or so. BCPii is an extension to the architecture, and is built on top of some of the same infrastructure, that was put in-place to support the HMC System Console and remote hardware operations that was exploited by the Target System Control Facility (TSCF) around 1990. (I was the chief designer of TSCF). TSCF subsequently became the Processor Operations (ProcOps) component of the Tivoli System Automation (TSA) product. So the underlying architecture and infrastructure that BCPii is based on has been there quite awhile. What is new is the SNMP layer and the ability to use the internal network to go from image to image. I ran the original task force in 1989 that defined the underlying architecture and I am a co-author of the patent that was issued for the architecture. The idea for BCPii came from me to solve a GDPS hardware control problem and I brought together the folks that funded and coded the initial GDPS implementation. Other folks in z/OS found a need for hardware control and the GDPS implement was subsequently reworked into system code. I haven't had anything to do with it directly in quite awhile, but I do keep an eye on it. W. Kevin Kelley -- IBM POK Lab -- z/OS Core Technical Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
