CONSOLE is a TSO/E function that requires a RACF TSOE segment plus READ access to profile CONSOLE in the TSOAUTH class. That authority can be given to the userid that 'shutdown' runs with, but it's not automatic.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 11:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Finding and replying to outstanding reply CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL The shutdown is authorized to do anything it wants. :-) Tony Thigpen Seymour J Metz wrote on 2/11/20 11:47 AM: > Are you authorized to use the CONSOLE service to issue commands and retrieve > output? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on > behalf of Tony Thigpen <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 8:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Finding and replying to outstanding reply > > We have an in-house written automated shutdown program that does > everything but shutdown NPF. That is because NPF leaves an open reply > message during start-up to which I must replay xx,STOP to make it > shutdown. Within our shutdown program, I would like it to > programmatically find the outstanding reply number so that it can > issue the correct response. > > Can someone point me to any doc or examples that will help me get > started on this? > > Some items: > The shutdown program is assembler. > I have SysREXX running with a valid MPF exit to call it. > I would prefer to do it all within the assembler program instead of > using MPF/SysREXX. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Tony Thigpen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
