Re: Can zLinux detect when files arrive in the virtual reader?

2022-09-01 Thread Donald Russell
Thank you Mark. VM CP presents the interrupt to Linux, why should Linux then ignore it? I’m not a kernel internals guy but my view is Linux should propagate any unsolicited interrupt like this so an application can have the opportunity to act on it. If a system wants to use cio_ignore to ignore

Re: Can zLinux detect when files arrive in the virtual reader?

2022-09-01 Thread Paul Flint
Greetings Beloved Mainframers, Could I suggest "netcat" ? https://ps.uci.edu/~franklin/doc/netcat.html It is well thought out. Regards, Flint On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 2:41 AM Donald Russell wrote: > Thanks Jeffery. Yes that would work but I’m trying to avoid polling loops, > or a cron thing

Re: Can zLinux detect when files arrive in the virtual reader?

2022-09-01 Thread Alan Altmark
The first place to start for Linux documentation is in the distro-specific Device Driver, Feature, and Command Reference. You will find there an example of using an SMSG to run a vmur command, along with the discussions about security.

Re: Can zLinux detect when files arrive in the virtual reader?

2022-09-01 Thread Dave Jones
I have an (old) IBM SHARE presentation here on how to set up and use SMSG on Linux I can send you. I think it is kind of a pain to set up but it does work. Another approach would be to have a simple TCPIP server running on Linux.you put the information about the RDR file you just sent to

Re: Can zLinux detect when files arrive in the virtual reader?

2022-09-01 Thread Donald Russell
Thanks David. Where can I find how to set up the “smsg catcher” in Linux? Is it part of the vm manager suite? Extra cost thingy? Does it support vmcf send/reply as well? Cheers, Don On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 17:39 David Kreuter wrote: > Use a cms wakeup machine running vmutil that receives a

Re: Can zLinux detect when files arrive in the virtual reader?

2022-09-01 Thread Donald Russell
Thanks Jeffery. Yes that would work but I’m trying to avoid polling loops, or a cron thing that checks every minute or so. On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 14:48 Jeffrey Barnard wrote: > Could you use the vm command interface to issue an Q F every x seconds. > > q f > FILES: 109 RDR, 028 PRT,