RE: QSH and PASE

I'll keep it in mind for when I get a minute.

Rob Berendt
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Rob, glad it helped, I'm out on a fringe here, but, can you run the 
shutdown stuff with QP2SHELL? If there's something you do in the QP2TERM 
session, could it be called with the other?

Just a thought

Vern

At 09:29 AM 3/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Vern,
>
>Thanks for that.  This is helping to explain some strange behaviors when
>using the PASE version of TSM.  To communicate with the running program
>you use QP2TERM.  I was thinking like a 5250 screen where you call jobs
>etc.  However it is different.  A better example for us traditionalists 
is
>that it's like using messages, data queues, whatever to communicate with 
a
>currently running program.  My problem was trying to figure out how to
>shut down TSM under PASE in an orderly fashion, yet do it at night,
>unattended.  IBM can figure out how to start it unattended, but not how 
to
>stop it (at least in an orderly fashion).  Keeping in mind that they 
avoid
>DB2 like the plague, therefore a frown can corrupt this data and require 
a
>drastic restore.
>
>Rob Berendt
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>OS/400 PASE Callable Program APIs
>
>The callable program APIs run an OS/400 PASE program. They are:
>
>- Run an OS/400 PASE Shell Program (QP2SHELL and QP2SHELL2) runs an 
OS/400
>
>PASE program in the job that calls the API.
>
>- Run an OS/400 PASE Terminal Session (QP2TERM) runs an interactive
>terminal session that communicates with an OS/400 PASE program 
(defaulting
>
>to the Korn shell) running in a batch job.
>
>Nothing to do with QShell. Apparently it's possible to call QShell stuff
>from PASE, as well as CL programs. Yikes, what a tangled system we have
>now, eh?
>
>HTH
>
>Vern
>
>At 02:18 PM 3/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >Is it?  Or is QP2TERM primarily used by TSM to set up some environment
> >variables prior to running STRQSH?
> >
> >Rob Berendt