Invoking MPP program from another MPP program

Sanjoy · New User Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 19

Yes in SDSF it is only the display .. Nothing else

Bitneuker · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:23 pm

You should find something like this:

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SDSF OUTPUT DISPLAY NTMSG02 JOB11151 DSID 2 LINE 0 COLUMNS 02- 81
COMMAND INPUT ===> SCROLL ===> CSR
********************************* TOP OF DATA **********************************
J E S 2 J O B L O G -- S Y S T E M S Y P 1 -- N O

07.00.16 JOB11151 ---- MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006 ----
07.00.16 JOB11151 ICH70001I AEADV61 LAST ACCESS AT 07:00:14 ON MONDAY, OCTOBER
07.00.16 JOB11151 $HASP373 NTMSG02 STARTED - INIT 30T - CLASS 3 - SYS SYE1
07.00.16 JOB11151 IEF403I NTMSG02 - STARTED - TIME=07.00.16
07.00.16 JOB11151 +DFS0578I - READ SUCCESSFUL FOR DDNAME PROCLIB MEMBER = DFSM
07.00.17 JOB11151 +DFS0579W - FIND FAILED FOR DDNAME PROCLIB MEMBER = IMNTNIX
07.00.17 JOB11151 DFS3600I UNABLE TO INITIALIZE EXTERNAL SUBSYSTEM(S) - IMNTNIX
07.00.17 JOB11151 +DFS667I . NON-REENTRENT MODULES HAVE BEEN PRELOADED IMNT
23.59.06 JOB11151 IGD104I $$ALL12.Q.NODBRC RETAINED
23.59.06 JOB11151 IGD104I NTSYS.IMSVS.LOADLIB RETAINED
23.59.06 JOB11151 IGD104I NASYS.IMSVS.LOADLIB RETAINED
23.59.06 JOB11151 IGD104I NPSYS.IMSVS.LOADLIB RETAINED
23.59.06 JOB11151 IGD104I SYST.FSN.V320.FSH.SFSNLOAD RETAINED
23.59.06 JOB11151 IGD104I SYSP.ASF.V320.SFSNLOAD RETAINED
23.59.06 JOB11151 IGD104I DXB.IPDT.DXBLOAD RETAINED
23.59.06 JOB11151 IGD104I NTSYS.CICS.SDFHAUTH RETAINED
23.59.06 JOB11151 IGD104I AYSYS.PROD.INIMS RETAINED
23.59.06 JOB11151 IGD104I DXB.IPDT.PLAUS RETAINED
23.59.06 JOB11151 - --TIMINGS (MINS.)--
23.59.06 JOB11151 -JOBNAME STEPNAME PROCSTEP RC EXCP CPU SRB CLOCK
23.59.06 JOB11151 -NTMSG02 REGION 00 3703 .00 .00 1018.8
23.59.06 JOB11151 IEF404I NTMSG02 - ENDED - TIME=23.59.06
23.59.06 JOB11151 -NTMSG02 ENDED. NAME- TOTAL CPU TIME=
23.59.06 JOB11151 $HASP395 NTMSG02 ENDED
------ JES2 JOB STATISTICS ------

If something made the transaction to be stopped it should me visable here.

Bitneuker · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:31 pm

Sanjoy · New User Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 19

No I am not able to see anyythink like this

But everytime I am stopping the transaction it is again going stopped status.

Bitneuker · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:48 pm

What happens when you invoke MPP-2 directly by entering the transactioncode?

Sanjoy · New User Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 19

Mpp2 can not invoked manually.It's giving error

DFS064 17:28:19 DESTINATION CAN NOT BE FOUND OR CREATED

Bitneuker · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:14 pm

Is it defined as a conversational transaction? When I enter a non-existing transaction code like notthere I'll get the same. You're supposed to enter the transactioncode; mind that trx, prog and psb may have different names!

DFS064 17:41:47 DESTINATION CAN NOT BE FOUND OR CREATED

is the result after entering notthere

*Got to leave you alone till tomorrow; good luck with your quest*

Sanjoy · New User Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 19

I got the solution of this..

Actually if we send any message to another Mpp we need to have one Gu call in the 2nd MPP.

Bitneuker · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:21 am

priyesh.agrawal · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:37 am

If I m not going wrong, this is the first topic in IMS DB/DC section to cross over one page of discussion.

Hats off George.

Regards,

Bitneuker · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:30 pm

@Sanjoy: TS stated the transaction was stopped but never showed the reason why. Never did such a 'useless' thing like this myself (invoking a MPP without having the thing read any message) but why was the transaction itself stopped

Anyway: the original question was how to invoke a MPP from another MPP and that question was answered right away (CHNG-call + message)

George22 · New User Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 2

Hi there - I found this MPP calling MPP post on a search as I am trying to do the same thing. I understand your instructions on starting the second MPP. However - I want to capture the output of the second MPP and interrogat it within the first MPP program. The output of my second MPP is an MFS screen which usually gets displayed on the terminal. Because I am calling the second MPP from within a first MPP - will the MFS be returned to the first MPP IO buffer - where I can read it ? or does the first MPP get abandoned and the screen of the second MPP get displayed on the terminal ?
Or is there another way to do this.
To spell it out in detail
MPP1 - call MPP2 with Key ABC
MPP2 screen output of data matching key ABC is returned to the calling buffer in MPP1
MPP1 reads the data.
MPP2 is an existing legacy IMS transaction
my code is in PL/1 - running on IMS V9.
thanks

Bitneuker · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 4:22 pm

If I get this right you want MPP1 to pass control to an existing MPP2 which retrieves data from a database. The information gathered by MPP2 should not be sent to a terminal but returned to MPP1.

So, when you made the chng-call MPP1 to pass control to MPP2 MPP1 disappeard from sight and MPP2 has taken over. In order to return control to MPP1 perform the chng-call and send the message to MPP1 or store the data in the spa which will be read by MPP1 and let MPP1 decide what to do with the data. The chng-call from MPP2 will force IMS to start MPP1. So MPP2 doesn't send the message to a terminal using I/O-PCB but send it to MPP1 using the ALT-PCB.

Hope this will help.

George22 · New User Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 2

Hi Bitneuker, thanks but not quite what I want. The MPP2 is an old legacy program that I do not want to touch( it belongs to another department and I don't want to go throught the politics of getting it changed). I just want to invoke MPP2 from MPP1 and have the output captured by MPP1. Elsewhere in the system there is a webservice that is able to start MPP2 an capture the screen output in a buffer, so how can I get MPP1 to do the same.

Bitneuker · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:11 pm

Sorry, webservices are too modern for me

Can't help you here. Anyone giving it a try