I have a friend who is at z/OS V1.13 He asked me an interesting question that I am thinking of opening a Share requirement on. Let me know what you think
When you create ACS code you can put WRITE statements into the process for clarification. Is it possible to capture those WRITEs in an automation product, OPS/MVS, AFOPER, Tivoli, and action the message? If a user is creating a dataset and using an invalid DSN, I could put a write statement in the code that says WRITE MYACS001I Invalid DSN for the storage group requested. Then if it went to SYSLOG I could capture it and send an email to the storage team for review. Or if my user was requesting way to much space for a specify storage pool, I could do something similar. So, it would be nice, in my opinion, to be able to create an event notification that an automation tool could capture and then perform some action (i.e. email the storage team) I understand that I can redirect to a different pool and provide other actions within ACS code. But since a lot of logging goes directly to the DFHSM logs or SYSOUT DDs, I have to have someone manually review to identify what is going on. Another example, there is an ARC0019I message that indicates the CELLS are too small for DFHSM. It is only in the SYSOUT DDs. I will be opening a SHARE requirement to be able to redirect these types of messages to SYSLOG so that an automation tool can send a notification to the storage team. The only way I see of doing it is to filter the output of the task to find the ACS code WRITE statements or filter the DFHSM SYSOUT DDs. Any thoughts are welcome. And if you have any other messages or functions in DFHSM that might need redirection, let me know. Thanks Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
