Have you tried to do a daily D IPLINFO (MVS Command) from the console and then check to see if it is different?
If you have an automation tool, have you looked at creating a SYSTEM REXX that could be triggered when the ACTIVATE command is done? Then capture the information then? Or looked at creating an MPF for the ACTIVATE command and trigger some action? Lizette -----Original Message----- >From: "White, Andy" <[email protected]> >Sent: Mar 3, 2016 8:51 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Check for dynamic HCD activation > >Thanks to those that replied. We collect the LOAD PARM information so and >update a chart for our operations staff based on the last IPL. This way if the >hardware unit does an update what I called the HCD or IODF dynamically and do >an activate we capture it, this way if it doesn’t match we automate an email >to our staff. This way we check our LOADxx member matches the volume where the >IODFxx is on DASD. > >The goal: We know it from yes (Mark's rexx exec, agree it's very useful) the >current one but if it's changed dynamically the code doesn’t pick it up, is >there a way to pick it up through another exec or anything else? And yes we >control dynamic activations via RACF and yes only hardware staff can do it. > >-------------------------- SNIP ------------------- > > > >2. D IOS,CONFIG shows current configuration (IODF name) for both HSA and MVS, >but it doesn't show whether the config was activated after IPL. >Even case where IODF HSA <> IODF MVS does not mean there was an activate, >because system could be IPLed with non-matching IODF (which in turn disallow >dynamic changes). > >3. AFAIK Mark's IPLINFO (great tool BTW, thank you Mark!) does not show >whether dynamic change took place. > > > >BTW: What's the goal? IMHO there are some other methods to get such >information. Not to mention dynamic activate should be strictly >controlled and performed only by persons who really know what they do. > >Regards >-- >Radoslaw Skorupka >Lodz, Poland > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
