John, A rexx function package could be written. What environments ? Maybe I will attempt this, i need one too.
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 6, 2012, at 3:34 PM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess there's not __really__ any __need__ for this. But it's been > perculating in my "back brain" for a while. To create an ADDRESS IDCAMS > environment for REXX. I know we can do IDCAMS commands in REXX by doing an > ADDRESS TSO and using the TSO commands. That works well. But it occurs to me, > being in a CPU poor environment, that perhaps having an ADDRESS IDCAMS > environment available for use in IRXJCL and UNIX REXX might be of some use. > The biggest problem is "how do I run an APF authorized IDCAMS command from a > non-APF authorized environment?". TSO does this in a "scary" way by having a > parallel TCB structure where APF authorized code runs in a separate TCB > environment and uses STATUS STOP to suspend processing in the non-APF > structure when an APF program, such as IDCAMS, is running. > > The thought of trying to duplicate this feat is scary to me. But, being the > weirdo that I am, it occurs to me that I can write an IDCAMS front end > program __in UNIX__ which is marked as APF authorized. There would be > something like RC=AMSCALLS('ON') similar to the RC=ISFCALLS('on') and > RC=SYSCALLS('on'). This AMSCALLS would do a spawn of the UNIX program. It > would also set up a pair of anonymous pipes so that the REXX environment > could send commands to the AMS process and receive the output back. The APF > UNIX program would set up things and invoke IDCAMS with ATTACHX and set > pointers to subroutines which direct IDCAMS' I/O to SYSIN and SYSPRINT via > the pipes back to the REXX environment. This should be secure since IDCAMS > would be running in a separate address space from the REXX program itself. > > I'm just not sure it if is worth bothering with. Using UNIX REXX, I can do an > ADDRESS TSO which spawns a TSO address space and do other TSO commands in > addition to IDCAMS commands. > > Just "blue skying", I guess. > > Might even be able to use that same process to do IDCAMS commands from a UNIX > shell. But, in z/OS 1.12, the tsocmd command works fairly well. > > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * > [email protected] * 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
