Re: Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-28 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: 27 April 2014 22:27 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data ...) There is often a reason why z/OS makes simple UNIX tasks difficult or makes good people do bad things. In your case, you estimated

Re: Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-28 Thread John Abell
or viruses or any consequence thereof. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 10:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data

Re: Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-27 Thread Jon Perryman
There is often a reason why z/OS makes simple UNIX tasks difficult or makes good people do bad things. In your case, you estimated 5000 pings and SNMP GET's. If you spawn that many process under Netview could be detrimental. Can SNMP become CPU intensive? Will there be a situation where you

Re: Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:26:51 -0700, Jon Perryman wrote: Submitting JCL is the best solution but submitting 1000 jobs to be a bit much.Submitting 3 or 4 is more reasonable but you will need to use a queue to pull the next IP address. For the queue, you could install / use the REXX interface to

Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:58:10 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: I'm looping some 5000 times in REXX and doing functions (NetView ping, SNMP walk, etc) sequentially. They don't necessarily need to be sequential. I'm just going through a list of printers and I want to test them. So.. Is it

Re: Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
(was: Sorting CSV data ...) On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:58:10 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: I'm looping some 5000 times in REXX and doing functions (NetView ping, SNMP walk, etc) sequentially. They don't necessarily need to be sequential. I'm just going through a list of printers and I want

Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Continuing dream mode, is it possible to SNMP GET and PING from inside OMVS, whilst maintaining the NetView REXX as parent? That would allow me to spin up threads I hope ... - Vignesh Mainframe Admin -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-17 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 4/17/2014 4:09 PM, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: Continuing dream mode, is it possible to SNMP GET and PING from inside OMVS, whilst maintaining the NetView REXX as parent? That would allow me to spin up threads I hope ... You can do a lot of neat z/OS UNIX-ish things in REXX using