Oh.....I see I completely misread the pipeline specification, Kris. xcmd was indeed an argument to the starmsg stage.
Have a good one. DJ On 02/08/2011 10:23 AM, Kris Buelens wrote: > "xcmd" is no stage, it just is a command that STARMSG will issue just > after its start. > > I've got an idea, I don't know if it is easily implemented: pass a > command to STARMSG with a known response. when that response arrives, > send it to some other stream where you uses SPECS to replace it by the > command to execute, that you pass to a COMMAND (or CP) stage that you > give a secondary output to trap the returncode. > Something like: > '!STARMSG comamndWithKnowResponse', > '!L: NLOCATE /the_expected_response', > ..... > '?L:!SPEC /'xcmd'/ 1', > '!Cmd: COMMAND', > '?Cmd:!Var CmdRc', > ... > > 2011/2/8 Tom Huegel <tehue...@gmail.com <mailto:tehue...@gmail.com>> > > Thanks David, I thought that was the flow, but I didn't get it to > work.. Maybe I was just tired. Between shoveling snow and watching > the Super Bowl I'm ready for a vacation. > > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Dave Jones <d...@vsoft-software.com > <mailto:d...@vsoft-software.com>> wrote: > > Tom, if the "xcmd" stage has a secondary output stream defined, > Pipelines will write the return code from the cp/cms command there. > > Does that help? > > DJ > > On 02/07/2011 02:09 PM, Tom Huegel wrote: > > I am trying to replace a WAKEUP (IUCVMSG routine with a PIPE > STARMSG. > > I have the following snippet that seems to work fine except > for capturing > > the return code from the cp/cms command (XCMD). > > > > Is there a simple fix to this? - Thanks > > > > /* > > */ > > > > trace > > o > > cp set msg > > iucv > > arg > > xcmd > > 'pipe (endchar > > ?)', > > '| starmsg > > ', > > > > xcmd, > > '| specs 9-16 1 17-* strip nw x15 > > nw', > > '| stem linecount.', /* save results > > */ > > '?', /* start of second > pipeline > > */ > > 'literal +01', /* Delay time > > */ > > '| delay', /* Delay > > */ > > '| pipestop' /* Stop > > */ > > say > > rc > > > > cp set msg > > on > > 'pipe stem linecount. | > > console' > > exit > > > > -- > Dave Jones > V/Soft Software > www.vsoft-software.com <http://www.vsoft-software.com/> > Houston, TX > 281.578.7544 > > > > > > -- > Kris Buelens, > IBM Belgium, VM customer support -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544
