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

I think with i 7.3 and above maybe even 7.2 you can call pretty much all of the APIs. New variable types including pointers and such enabled that. You will have to compile as CLLE but then that's not bad anyway. :-)
-Dr F

On 3/2/2021 5:01 PM, Vern Hamberg wrote:

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

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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?

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JHHL