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

1)  Yes, but it's easier to change it in the job description for the startup
job:
    CHGJOBD QSYS/QSTRUPJD

2)  The job will fail and send messages like any other batch job.  The
controlling subsystem is up and running at this point so the console will be
available.  Messages will be on QSYSOPR.

3)  IBM is guaranteeing that their versions of the commands will run.
You're right, other versions of the commands could run if they were in
libraries placed higher in the system library list than QSYS.  Also, I
wonder if qualifying the commands guarantees that the program runs even if
you pull QSYS out of your system library list.  I usually create a library
called SYSTEM and keep it ahead of QSYS in the library list for anything
that I modify from QSYS, so that it doesn't get overlayed during an OS/400
upgrade.  I tend to qualify every new command in QSTRUP so that it isn't
dependent on library lists.

-Jim

James Damato
Manager - Technical Administration
Dollar General Corporation
<mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com>


-----Original Message-----
From: D.BALE@handleman.com [mailto:D.BALE@handleman.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:36 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: start-up program QSTRUP


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
Dan Bale says "BAN DALE!"
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
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