RE: Ping to test a connection to see if it's alive?

Here ya go.  Another good one I will add to my source page.  This one will
work on at least V3R2 and up.  You can MONMSG on PING in newer releases, but
this will work on all of them. 

             PGM        PARM(&IP &OK)
             DCL        VAR(&IP)      TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(30)
             DCL        VAR(&OK)      TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(1)
             DCL        VAR(&MSGID)   TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(7)
             DCL        VAR(&MSGDATA) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(4)

             CHGVAR     VAR(&OK) VALUE('Y')

             PING       RMTSYS(&IP) MSGMODE(*QUIET) NBRPKT(1)
             MONMSG     MSGID(TCP0000) EXEC(DO)
             CHGVAR     VAR(&OK) VALUE('N')
             GOTO       CMDLBL(END)
             ENDDO

             RCVMSG     MSGQ(*PGMQ) MSGTYPE(*LAST) MSGDTA(&MSGDATA) +
                           MSGID(&MSGID)

             IF         COND(%BIN(&MSGDATA) *EQ 0) THEN(DO)
             CHGVAR     VAR(&OK) VALUE('N')
             ENDDO

END:         ENDPGM

Bradley V. Stone
BVS/Tools
http://www.bvstools.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Kuznitz [mailto:docfxit@calwest.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:14 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Ping to test a connection to see if it's alive?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share a CL pgm 
> that does a 
> ping to test a connection to see if it's alive?
> 
> I sure would appreciate it.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Gary Kuznitz
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