I've got code that I use for that. I run with the VTAM service machine(s)
secuser'd to the sys_op id which is running PROP. The code the user has
access to sends the msg to sys_op which traps it and issues the VTAM
command. It gets the response back and until either the normal VTAM "end
of message" line comes back or for some set time, it will forward anything
from the VTAM service machine back to the originator of the command. It
could get confused on a really busy system if you had a bunch of users
issuing VTAM messages all at the same time, but that has never been an
issue for me. You can have the execs if you want. If you're running
VM:Operator or something else, you're on your own on that end. The exec
just has to be modified for your own VTAM machine's id and the userid of
your sys_op machine.
Jim
At 02:50 PM 2/15/2006, you wrote:
Is there an exit or other facility that allows an authorized class G user
to issue VTAM commands and get the response back? We have some naïve (VM
illiterate) users in the network group who need to be able to issue
commands to VTAM. I am hesitant about giving them the ability to either
log on to VTAM or be made SECUSER to it. My fuzzy memory in this area is
that there is/was a commonly used exit or exec available somewhere.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
Jim Bohnsack
Cornell Univ.
(607) 255-1760
