I hate to do marketing, but I need to mention that the company I work for sells a very inexpensive product that allows you to perform automated operations, IPL, Shutdown, and anything in-between. You can get information by going to www.SyzygyInc.net, but I'll also paste some of the marketing stuff below. You can try out any of our products for up to 60 days for free.
Basically SyzCmdz does what the big ticket automation products from the likes of IBM and CA do, but is available at a VERY small fraction of the cost. There are over hundreds of users of our products, and this particular one is my personal favorite. Begin Marketing blurb: The SyzCmdz utility is designed to provide the "authorized" user with the capability of executing simple or complex "scripts" of MVS, JES2, JES3, CICS, DB/2, or Unix System Services (USS) commands from within a batch job or started task. The command(s) can be issued from the PARM parameter on the EXECute card or from the parameter script file both. SyzCmdz can be used to automate the operating systems IPL, Shutdown, controlling and monitoring CICS, DB/2 the TCP/IP or VTAM network, and almost any operator function in between. The product can be called from within "authorized" high level programs to execute commands and perform functions that would otherwise not be possible. SyzCmdz is not simply a "dumb" scripting facility for issuing commands, it has a direct interface with your sites security system (RACF, ACF/2, TOP/Secret) and will only allow "authorized" users to use the many special features for determining what needs to be done and when. The utility provides a very simple scripting language that allows the "authorized" user to harness extremely powerful command logic, including nested IF/THEN/ELSE logic. Facilities are provided to allow "authorized" users to perform script/command logic in instances such as only IF some task is active, or not active, or only if (or if not) a certain day of the week, or time of day. There are over 35 "special" internal logic commands built in to the SyzCmdz facility with more under development. Some features include: Nested IF/THEN/ELSE capability (up to 8 levels) IF logic for Whether or not a particular JOB/STC/TSO user is started (or not), If specific VOLSERs or Units are ONLINE (or OFFLINE), Day of Week, Time of day, LPAR ID (system ID), and more!!! Cause the script to "WAIT" for a specific "thing" to happen, like for a specific JOB to start, or a specific time of day, or any of many variable items including (a Syzygy exclusive) for VTAM to not only be started but be ready for work without requiring any VTAM changes to support this function. Provide the ability to reply to outstanding messages without regard to their reply-id's or even knowing the complete text or message ID of the message. You can reply to "ANY" outstanding message for a JOB/STC/USER, or to all messages that are currently outstanding. Pause from 1 second to 9999 hours, or "until" a specific time of day. and much more..... If you're interested, have a look at the web site, or drop me an offline email and I'll get you a copy of the manuals, or a free trial. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
