My former customer's AUTOLOG1 performed a few checks before it even started RACFVM. That function would get lost if CP would xautolog the ESM directly: for example there was a time we needed an extra to VARY ON of some DASD before we would go on. It also verified that the LPAR name matched the VM ID. I don't have a list to see if everything is now obsolete or could be moved to AUTOLGO2 after all.
2008/8/1 Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Aug 1, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> And while I'm halucinating, I would have a command that adds and deletes >>> users from an autolog list. The list is in the warm start area. No >>> requirement for AUTOLOG1 unless you want it. Oh, and the autologs would >>> be paced to ensure that the system is not brought to its knees during >>> IPL. >>> >> >> We did run PROP in AUTOLOG2 and it would also get the message when the >> autologged user went away, it allowed the operator to check the >> status, etc. It allowed people to add things to the list (also users >> could request their own server to be started). IIRC we had a disk with >> a file per userid to be autologged, and the file itself had >> information about when it should be started and on what system and who >> to alert when it broke. >> >> I think David recently also did something like this. >> > > If by "David," you mean "Adam," then yes, the answer is we did, it was > SYSVINIT. It's at http://download.sinenomine.net/sysvinit/ > > It wasn't quite as sophisticated as all that, but it's a lot more > sophisticated than a list of XAUTOLOGS interspersed with CP SLEEPS. > > The URL in the WAAV presentation there is no longer valid. But if you got > to the WAAV presentation, you're there. > > The community response to SYSVINIT was deafening silence, which sort of > surprised me, as it really DID provide a nice flexible mechanism for > automating startup with real dependency checking. Although the log disk > fills up--I never got around to adding an autocleaner to it--and I never got > midnight message trapping to work correctly. > > Still, if there's actually SOME interest in it, I might be eventually > persuaded to address that. If not, hey, it's all Rexx, so feel free. > > Adam > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
