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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Jim McAlpine
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 11:05
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How to check if a job is running in a SYSPLEX

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Just curious,
>
> If your tasks had a first step that mod'd a common dataset and then 
> CICS would query that data set, could you set it up that way?
>
> The data set could contain the info you need Date Time Task_Name 
> Plex_name Startup/Shutdown state.
>
> Plex_name could also include LPAR name
>
>
> So first step of job would set the startup date/time The last step of 
> the job would set the shutdown date/time.
>
> Lizette
>

Thanks Lizette, As I said in an earlier reply, we have toyed with a similar 
solution  but using a DB2 table as the data repository. The only problem with 
this type of solution is that it's not bullet proof. We could obviously put 
COND=EVEN on the last step just in case the server address space should abend 
but that does not cover the case where the server may be cancelled by the 
operator for whatever reason. Not highly likely, but still possible. In that 
case the repository data would not reflect the actual situation.

Jim Mc

>
>

I think the XCF Notepad solution we be similarly not bulletproof. The only 
bulletproof solution is the SYSDSN ENQ, it will definitely disappear when the 
task or even its LPAR crashes.

Kees.

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