RE: Re[2]:re: complete save via cl command

["Shaw, David" <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michele,

What you would probably need to do is something like what BRMS does: Have a
program running on your console that waits for a job to run on the job
scheduler that tells the console program to go ahead and do the save.  This
is essentially what Rob Berendt is suggesting - sounds like his program
could be easily adapted to do this.

One comment about something else that BRMS does:  BRMS doesn't do a SAVLIB
*NONSYS.  Instead, it does SAVLIB *ALLUSR and SAVLIB *IBM.  Why?  Because it
can do a save-while-active on the SAVLIB *ALLUSR, allowing the system to
come back up from restricted state as soon as the SAVSYS is done and the
SAVLIB *ALLUSR has reached its checkpoint.  To do this, I suspect that they
send the checkpoint message to a specific message queue which has a
break-handling program that does a STRSBS of the controlling subsystem when
the checkpoint message is received.  I think this is a really elegant way to
reduce the downtime for the full system save to a minimum, for those of us
who need that.

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michele Reinkemeyer [mailto:mreinkemeyer@mbsbooks.com]
> 
> I won't ask you to publish the method of restarting the 
> controlling subsystem
> (althoug, now I am curious).  
> 
> I am confused.  I am not sure if I am not making myself clear 
> or if maybe I am
> just more ignorant on this than I thought?  I only go into 
> the office once a
> week (Mondays) so I want the systems to be set up to 
> automatically do complete
> saves each Friday night/Saturday morning.  Is it possible to 
> set a delay on the
> complete save that is that lengthy (4-5 days away) and 
> reoccurs every week
> without having to be set up each week (in case I miss a 
> Monday)?  I have done
> delays of a few hrs, but never days and haven't seen a 
> parameter that allows
> this to be reoccuring.  Thus the hope of a CL command via a 
> job scheduled entry.
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