Re: start-up program QSTRUP -- MIDRANGE-L

Good timing, I just finished making changes to our QSTRUP program.  It's a CLP 
program, you can do anything in this CLP just like any other CLP.  
The change job will work, but I haven't added that command.
If you are doing STRTCP in the jobs you may want to prompt on the command, go 
to the top of the screen where it give you the command information and press 
F1.  This will give you a list of all the associated error messages to this 
command, so you can monitor for both CPF0000 and MCHxxx etc.
The system value should be qualified with the library of the startup program so 
after an IPL it should retrieve the correct version of the program, and/or you 
can rename the standard IBM QSYS/QSTRUP program.
Hope that helps.

Bruce Barrett
pmi Mortgage Insurance Co.
Systems Consultant
601 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-291-6152
415-393-6412 FAX

>>> D.BALE@handleman.com 06/07/01 02:36PM >>>
I have some questions regarding the start-up program (QSTRUP), of which the
IBM docs did not answer.  (Note that we have retrieved the source from
QSYS/QSTRUP and modified that source, compiled it in a user library, and
changed the system value QSTRUPPGM to point to that program.)

1.  Can I safely use CHGJOB LOG(4 00 *SECLVL) LOGCLPGM(*YES) in this program?
We made a change to this program that supposedly did not do what it was
supposed to, but we have no record of whether or not this is true.  We would
like to be able to look at the job log for the startup program to check this.

2.  When I insert new commands to run, I believe I need to at least duplicate
IBM's effort to monitor for escape messages.  IBM uses MONMSG MSGID(CPF0000) .
 Is that enough?  I thought I have seen in the past where the absolute
catch-all MONMSG monitored for CPF0000, CPF9999, & MCH0000.  Yea or nay?  What
happens if a command fails and a message is issued waiting for a reply?  Will
the console ever show a signon screen?

3.  Doesn't it seem odd that IBM qualifies all the commands except the MONMSG,
IF, CALL, and others?  Don't these also have the same exposure to being
"hijacked" by another library higher than QSYS in the library list?  Is it
possible to have a library higher than QSYS during the normal execution of
this command at IPL?  (Possibly the QSYSLIBL system library list?)

TIA

- Dan
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