Re: Is there a simple way for a CL program to determine whether a given subsystem is active?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This can be done in CL very easily, this might be a repeat of someone 
else's post.

Basically, the information from QWDRSBSD comes back in a receiver 
variable that is just one of the parameters. Status is at position 29, I 
think, a 10-character field there, either *ACTIVE or *INACTIVE. I think 
I saw someone say it was format SBSD0100 - that's the least information.

You CAN call APIs from CL - not all, necessarily, but many of the 
simpler ones, sure. This looks like one of those. It's just a program 
call in this case, no special stuff like user spaces and all that.

Regards
Vern

On 3/2/2021 2:56 PM, PaulMmn wrote:
> This isn't CL, and it does use an API (but does not require a user 
> space).  I put this together in 1996 or so...  We were going to 
> totally automate our week-end IPL.  That never happened, but some 
> useful pieces survived.
>
> QWDRSBSD API was introduced in V2R1...
>
> --Paul E Musselman
>
> .
>
> At 8:55 AM -0800 3/2/21, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> > I'll admit that I haven't done more than a cursory look at the CMDJOB 
> > and CMDSBS menus (and even that only on our V4R4 box, even though the 
> > box I'm asking this for is on V7), but short of an API call, can a CL 
> > program easily check to see if a given subsystem is active?
> >
> > --
> > JHHL