ARSYSPIN

[chuckalugk]

We have a customer that only wants ARSYSPIN to run at certain times of the day, due to them advising they need their sysouts in case they have a printer jam on their labels.  Does anyone only run ARSYSPIN at certain times of the day?   We are trying to accommodate the customer, without causing issues with CMOD.   Thanks.

[Mehmet S Yersel]

ARSYSPIN is a started task.
This means, you can bring it down and keep it down with automation and restart it as well when you need to.

Typically, when we do maintenance, we bring down ARSYSPIN [and ARSLOAD]. And when maintenance is completed, we start the tasks again. All via automation.
You need to start talking with your mainframe automation team as well as z/OS Systems Programmers for how this can be achieved with the tools available in your shop.


I hope this helps,
Mehmet

[chuckalugk]

Thank you for your reply.  I am just curious if this happens at other shops, since all our other systems keep ARSYSPIN running, unless we are doing maintenance.  We are migrating to CMOD from Mobius, and currently the one system runs a Mobius sweep job at 5:30 and 19:30 to pick up sysouts.  They want the same type of loading using CMOD.   

[Mehmet S Yersel]

They need their outputs in case there is an issue and they have a sweep at  5:30 and 19:30.
So, what happens if they have an issue with one of the outputs created at 5:29 or 19.29? The output will be available only in Mobius, right? If so, CMOD design should be changed to accommodate for this exception, right?

[Justin Derrick]

Could you just load the sysouts into a CMOD Application Group, and let them access it that way?  That way all of the diagnostic output would appear in one place, and could be archived for days/weeks/months/years?

-JD.

[chuckalugk]

Currently, there are parts plants that use the sysouts for reporting (part #'s ...totals....)   The issues I mentioned pertain to labels.   There is also a concern about training, loading and setting up the client.....  They are asking for ARSYSPIN to run from 1am - 4am.   

[Ed_Arnold]

I look at this as being the same issue as trying to run non-critical workload off-peak.

In other words, run ARSYSPIN when you want to run it, stop it when you want to stop it.

Ed