Alan > I think you'll find NetView uses ATCCONxx just like VTAM does for deciding > what is initially active at startup.
You are right in your thinking. Indeed, I did find that the NetView STATMON component uses both ATCCONxx and CNMCONxx. I even recall changing "... providing the same service." to "... providing a similar service." to try to take this into account - but it was obviously insufficient an acknowledgement. My point was that, if a product was interested in a VTAMLST partitioned data set, it would need to be provided with the member names - minimally the suffix of the ATCCONxx member. Incidentally, I clearly must have known this - all of it - in the days I enabled STATMON in the NetView implementation I provided for my hands-on students, 15 to 25 years ago. I have to confess I was never a "friend" of STATMON and whatever it was called before some bright spark in NetView development incorporated it alongside NCCF, NPDA and NLDM. To my mind - as a teacher trying to drum correct concepts into the minds of students - it tended to reinforce a mistaken picture of the resources so very often confusingly represented by VTAM statements. I provided STATMON in the students' NetView only because they might have withdrawal symptoms if the "tool" wasn't available.[1] - > Back to the original question, most sites I have worked at have the VTAMLST > concatenation in NetView so that members can be browsed from it without > having to resort to TSO. Good point - in line with Lizette's suggestion that you should look for references to VTAMLST partitioned data sets in product JCL. Casting my mind back, I believe being able to use the NetView BROWSE command for members of VTAMLST partitioned data sets is built into NetView - and I guess NCCF before it - documentation. Very probably you should change your "most" to "all". - [1] I guess that makes sense only when it is appreciated that, in the second week of a two-week hands-on class, the student groups implemented their own small, originally, SNI network which they planned during the first week at the times they weren't following set exercises. - Chris Mason On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:39:30 +0300, Alan Watthey <a.watt...@gmail.com> wrote: >Chris, > >I think you'll find Netview uses ATCCONxx just like VTAM does for deciding >what is initially active at startup. However, CNMCONxx is for specifying >any additional members that you want Netview to include in STATMON and that >are not in ATCCONxx. Perhaps one doesn't activate much at all in ATCCONxx >and then one gets automation to activate what one wants depending upon >certain criteria. CNMCONxx would then specify all the VTAM major nodes that >might get activated. > >Back to the original question, most sites I have worked at have the VTAMLST >concatenation in Netview so that members can be browsed from it without >having to resort to TSO. > >Regards, >Alan. > >> This is the NetView STATMON component pre-processor program. Just as >> VTAM has its ATCCONxx member which provides the names of members as >> dreamed up by the responsible system programmer so the NetView STATMON >> component pre-processor program has its CNMCONxx member providing a >> similar service. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
