Thank you for the suggestion Ed. I'll look into IXCQUERY as another option and learning experience.
Regarding the use of a single digit, the digit will be used as part of a CONSOLE name so numbers and upper-case alpha and #, $ and @ are the only valid characters. 10 numbers + 26 Upper-Case + 3 special characters = 39 which is greater than the 32 maximum systems allowed in a SYSPLEX. Of course I would like to see this code live through future changes which is not possible with the naming restrictions for console-name and using a single character: "Value Range: conname is from 2 to 8 characters. The first character of conname must begin with the letters A through Z or with a #, $, or @; the remaining characters can be A through Z, 0 through 9, or #, $, or @." These rules would only allow a single character to be up to 39. With this restriction it seems that I will be forced to code the program to handle up to the current limit of 32 unless I look to change the program to use a 2 character identifier. Sean -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 3:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Need single character unique identifier for each system in a sysplex. 0-F is fine. Smith, Sean M wrote: > Fellow IBMers and Mark. Zelden in particular, > Mark *is* a celebrity! ;-) > I am modifying an assembler program and I have a need to have a single > digit unique identifier for a system within a SYSPLEX. I started by > looking at Mark Zelden's IPLINFO (thanks again Mark...this has been a > huge boon to me REXX skill set as I reference your techniques > frequently). I looked at the following fields (field names from > IPLINFO): > For supervisor state or PKM 0-7 callers there is IXCQUERY REQINFO=COUPLE,SYSTEMID=area -- 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
