RE: CLP to decide if DDM file is available?

Art:

PING may tell you if there's an available route to the remote system, but I 
don't know how to make it tell you if DDM is available. I'm not sure any CL 
program can tell you that except for maybe something that does a RUNRMTCMD and 
sends a WRKSBSJOB *PRINT across, then processes the returned spooled file to 
see if the DDM job is listed. Not a trivial task. And of course the remote 
command server must be active first.

Alternatively, I suppose you could do a copy from a DDM file and see what 
happens. The CL could monitor for errors.

You might need to write an RPG program to actually connect via sockets to the 
DDM server job to see what errors, if any, occur. I've done similar things and 
it's a fair introduction to sockets programming.

But a CLP it ain't.

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   5. CLP to decide if DDM file is available? (Art Tostaine, Jr.)
>
>We are using DDM over TCP/IP.  I need to know if the file is available.
>Mostly we are interested in communications issues, we already handle
>times the file might not be available.
>
>Previously with SNA I would just check the device status.
>
>Now I guess I need to check PING results? 

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