ESP Workload Automation

  • 1.  Automation of Post-IPL Activity

    Posted Oct 24, 2018 10:04 AM

    Hi,  

     

    I am very familiar with scheduling in ESP, but just getting into the systems side of it.  

     

    I'd like to have run a schedule of jobs whenever the mainframe is IPL'd.  I have been talking to my systems folks about this, and we are discussing various methods on how to determine that the IPL is complete, and ready for this post-IPL schedule to run in ESP.  I thought they would be okay to catalog a dataset that the ESP event could trigger on, or run a job to execute ESP, with a TR command, but they came back asking if ESP could detect a SYSLOG message:  ONLINES NORMAL STARTUP COMPLETE.  I checked the ESP manuals, and I didn't find anything about IPL detection.

     

    Is there a best practice I can suggest to my systems team, so we can have a smooth hand-off between the IPL process, and the jobs we want to run after the IPL?  

     

    Thanks,

    Darrell



  • 2.  Re: Automation of Post-IPL Activity

    Posted Oct 24, 2018 10:27 AM

    Hi Darrell, 

    I think the best method is to have automation detect the message "ONLINES NORMAL STARTUP COMPLETE" and issue a modify command to ESP to trigger an event. 

    /F ESP, TRIGGER POWDO03.DPUSER04

    Parameters could be passed in as needed. 

     

    Note: This would trigger each time the onlines are started not just when an IPL is done. 



  • 3.  Re: Automation of Post-IPL Activity
    Best Answer

    Posted Oct 25, 2018 09:16 AM

    If you are using OPS/MVS as your automation, the automation people can use the ADDRESS ESP function in the IPL automation to do what you need.



  • 4.  Re: Automation of Post-IPL Activity

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Nov 09, 2018 12:56 PM

    Hi Darrell,

     

    Have you found the replies from Don and Leo helpful?

     

    Do you have any more concerns?

     

    Thank you for your feedback,

     

    Lucy