ISGECMON appears to work as self-advertized. A quick test on our sandbox gives good results: the owning user is notified regardless of where the job is running.
Note that this program works altogether differently from DSNHELD, which is an MPF exit kicked off by message IEF863I on the batch job's system. ISGECMON, running on every system with an interval pop, eventually detects the conflict wherever the user is logged on, so TPUT gets issued on the 'right' system. Thanks to all for the quick help. We're venturing into our first bronze-plex this weekend, so users will likely see some GRS false contentions. Having sysplex-wide notification will help. Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED] OFTWARE.COM> To Sent by: IBM IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Mainframe cc Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU> Re: Dataset-held message to TSO user 11/16/2007 03:49 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> Brian Peterson wrote: > Maybe you're supposed to run ISGECMON on each LPAR where TSO users > might be? Otherwise, I would imagine it would be relatively simple to convert > to issuing a z/OS console SEND command to communicate with users wherever > they may be.... > You are definitely supposed to run it everywhere. The logic consciously ignores so-called "data set owners" running on other systems. The program notes say: |This program will not notify users on |other systems of contention. However, the |same effect may be achieved by running a |a copy of this program on every system. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html