Change Command CRQ Activity (CHGCMDCRQA)

The Change Command Change Request Activity (CHGCMDCRQA) command changes command activity in a change request description to run a command on one or more managed systems.

The activity can be conditioned so that it only runs after one or more other activities have completed (successfully or unsuccessfully). The activity can also be scheduled to run at a date and at a time in the future.

Restrictions:

You must have *CHANGE authority to the change request description and *EXECUTE authority to the library.
If a node list (NODL) value is specified, the node list can only contain entries that have a value of *SNA for the address type.

Notes:

The following notes provide information on how the command works.

Authorization to the product specified on the activity is not verified until the activity runs.
All conditions must be satisfied before the activity can run.
The start times indicate when the activity can be started. Actual start times can be later due to network and system delays.

Parameters

Keyword	Description	Choices	Notes
CRQD	Change request description	Qualified object name	Optional, Key, Positional 1
	Qualifier 1: Change request description	Name
	Qualifier 2: Library	Name, LIBL, CURLIB
ACTIVITY	Activity	Name, *LAST	Optional, Key, Positional 2
CMD	Command to run	Command string	Optional, Positional 3
NODL	Managed systems node list	Element list	Optional
	Element 1: Node list	Single values: NONE, SAME Other values: Qualified object name
	Qualifier 1: Node list	Name
	Qualifier 2: Library	Name, LIBL, CURLIB
CPNAME	Managed system node names	Single values: SAME, LOCAL, NONE Other values (up to 50 repetitions): Element list*	Optional
	Element 1: Network identifier	Communications name, *NETATR
	Element 2: Control point	Communications name
RMTSTRTIME	Start time on managed system	Element list	Optional
	Element 1: Time zone	SAME, LCLSYS, *MGDSYS
	Element 2: Start after	Element list
	Element 1: Time	Time, CURRENT, SAME
	Element 2: Date	Date, CURRENT, NEXT, *SAME
	Element 3: Start before	Element list
	Element 1: Time	Time, ANY, CURRENT, *SAME
	Element 2: Date	Date, ANY, CURRENT, NEXT, SAME
RTNSPLF	Return spooled file	YES, NO, FAIL, SAME	Optional
USRPRF	User profile	Simple name, NONE, SAME	Optional
PASSWORD	Password	Character value, USRPRF, NONE, *SAME	Optional
ENCODE	Encode command	SAME, YES, *NO	Optional
TEXT	Text 'description'	Character value, SAME, GEN	Optional
COND	Activity conditions	Single values: SAME, NONE Other values (up to 5 repetitions): Element list	Optional
	Element 1: Activity	Generic name, name, *PRV
	Element 2: Relational operator	EQ, GT, LT, LE, NE, GE
	Element 3: End code	0-99, SUCCESS, FAIL, NOTRUN, ANY
	Element 4: Condition mode	ALLNODES, SAMENODE
STRTIME	Activity start time	Element list	Optional
	Element 1: Start after	Element list
	Element 1: Time	Time, SAME, CURRENT
	Element 2: Date	Date, SAME, CURRENT, *NEXT
	Element 2: Start before	Element list
	Element 1: Time	Time, SAME, ANY, *CURRENT
	Element 2: Date	Date, SAME, ANY, CURRENT, NEXT
HOLD	Hold activity	SAME, NO, *YES	Optional

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Managed systems node list (NODL)

Specifies that the node list parameter is the object name that contains a list of systems which are the destinations for the activity. This parameter cannot be specified if the control point name (CPNAME) parameter is also specified.

The possible values are:

*SAME: The value does not change.
*NONE: The systems on which this activity is to be performed are not specified by a node list. Individual control point names must be specified.

The possible values are:

*LIBL: All of the libraries in the user and system portions of the job's library list are searched for the node list object.
*CURLIB: The current library for the job is used to locate the node list object.
library-name.: Specify the name of the library to be searched.

node-list-name: Specify the node list object name containing the list of systems on which the activity is to be performed.

Managed system node names (CPNAME)

Specifies the APPN control point names of the managed systems on which this activity is to be performed. Control point names cannot be specified if a node list is specified.

The possible values are:

*SAME: The value does not change.
*NONE: The systems on which this activity is performed are not identified individually. A node list must be specified.
*LOCAL: The local system is identified as the target system. If *LOCAL is specified, the command is run on the local system. The remote command service is not used. Any spooled files created remain on the system.

The possible values are:

*NETATR: The network ID of the local system is used. This is useful when the node being specified is in the same network as the local system.
network-identifier: Specify the APPN network identifier of the managed system on which the activity is to be performed.

The possible value is:

control-point-name: Specify the APPN control point name of the managed system on which the activity is to be performed.

Start time on managed system (RMTSTRTIME)

Specifies the date and time when the activity can begin running on the managed system. The current date and time values, and the next date values are determined when the activity begins running at the central site system based on the central site date and time.

The possible time zone of the remote start time values are:

*SAME: The value does not change.
*LCLSYS: The remote start time is specified in the time zone of the central site system.
*MGDSYS: The remote start time is specified in the time zone of the managed system.

The possible start after time values are:

This is the definition of the time after which the activity is to start.

*SAME: The value does not change.
*CURRENT: This function can start on the managed system at any time on or after the time this activity was started on the central site system.
start-after-time: Specify the time after which this function can be started on the managed system. The time can be entered as 4 or 6 digits (hhmm or hhmmss) where, hh = hours, mm = minutes, and ss = seconds. Seconds are optional. The time can be specified with or without a time separator. With a time separator, specify a string of 5 or 8 digits (hh:mm or hh:mm:ss).

The possible start after date values are:

*SAME: The value does not change.
*CURRENT: This function can start on the managed system on any date on or after the date this activity starts on the central site system.
*NEXT: This function can start on the managed system on any date after the date this activity starts on the central site system.
start-after-date: Specify the date after the functions can start on the managed system. The date must be specified in the job date format.

The possible start before time values are:

*SAME: The value does not change.
*ANY: The activity can start at any time on or after the start time.
*CURRENT: The activity must start before the time the change request was submitted on the date specified on the start before date element.
start-before-time: Specify the time before which the activity must be started. If the activity cannot be started before this time, then it never starts. The time can be entered as 4 or 6 digits (hhmm or hhmmss) where hh = hours, mm = minutes, and ss = seconds. Seconds are optional. The time can be specified with or without a time separator (:). With a time separator, specify a string of 5 or 8 digits where the time separator specified for your job is used to separate the hours, minutes, and seconds.

The possible start before date values are:

*SAME

The value does not change.

*ANY

The activity can start at any date on or after the start date.

*CURRENT

The activity must start before the date the change request was submitted.

*NEXT

The activity must start by the day after the date the change request was submitted.

start-before-date

Specify the date before which the activity must be started. If the activity cannot be started by this date, then it never starts. The date must be specified in the job date format.

Note:

The special values *CURRENT and *NEXT cannot be specified for the date and the time if the time zone value *MGDSYS is specified.

Password (PASSWORD)

Specifies the password for the remote user profile.

Managed Systems at releases prior to V5R1M0 only accept uppercased passwords up to 10 characters long. If a longer password is entered, SMU18A2 message with 100B0007 SNA sense code is returned, indicating that the request was rejected.
Managed Systems at release V5R1M0 and above, running with QPWDLVL system value:
- 0 or 1 -- truncate the received passwords to 10 characters.
- 2 or 3 -- accept passwords up to 128 characters.

The possible values are:

*SAME: The value does not change.
*NONE: No password is specified.
*USRPRF: The password is the same as the user profile.
password: Specify the password for the user profile.

Encode command (ENCODE)

Specifies whether the command, user profile, and password are encoded when sent to the managed systems. If the managed system is running NetView Remote Operations Agent/400 product, this parameter must be set to *NO.

*SAME: The value does not change.
*YES: The command, user profile, and password are encoded when the request is sent to the managed systems. The managed system attribute for the remote command key must be specified on both the central site system and the managed system. This attribute can be changed using the Change Managed System Attributes (CHGMGDSYSA) command. The remote command key must be the same on the central site system and the managed system.
*NO: The command, user profile, and password are not encoded when the request is sent to the managed systems.

Activity conditions (COND)

Specifies which conditions must be met before this activity can be performed. Each condition identifies an activity which must be run before this activity and the value the end codes from that activity must have to allow this activity to run. The default condition is that the previous activity (in alphabetical order) must complete successfully before this activity can be run.

The possible single value is:

*NONE: There are no conditions for this activity.

*SAME: The value does not change.

The possible conditioning activity values are:

This is the activity which must be run before this activity.

*PRV: This activity is conditioned on the previous activity. Activities are ordered alphabetically by activity name. If the activity being added is the first activity, a previous activity does not exist and any condition with *PRV is marked as having been met.
conditioning-activity-name: Specify the name of the activity which must be run before this activity. The activity name specified in the activity (ACTIVITY) parameter cannot be specified in the conditioning activity name. An activity cannot be conditioned on itself.
generic*-activity-name: Specify the generic name of the activities which must be run before this activity.

The possible relational operator values are:

This element is the relational operator to use when comparing the end code from the conditioning activity.

*EQ: Equal
*GT: Greater than
*LT: Less than
*NE: Not equal
*GE: Greater than or equal
*LE: Less than or equal

The possible conditioning code results are:

*SUCCESS

The activity ended successfully (0 <= end code <= 9). This end code can only be specified with relational operator *EQ or *NE.

*FAIL

The activity failed (10 <= end code <= 89). This end code can only be specified with relational operator *EQ or *NE.

*NOTRUN

The activity was never started (90 <= end code <= 99). This end code is only specified with relational operator *EQ or *NE.

*ANY

The activity ended with any end code. This end code is only specified with relational operator *EQ.

end-code

Specify an integer value (0-99) that indicates the result of an activity (success or failure). The end code ranges and descriptions are:

00

Activity completed successfully.

01-09

Activity completed with warning messages.

10-29

Activity did not complete successfully.

30-39

Activity was canceled by a user before it completed.

30 = Activity ended with *CNTRLD option
35 = Activity ended with *IMMED option
39 = Activity ended with *FRCFAIL option

40-49

Activity was not run due to errors detected by the application.

40 = Activity not run for security reasons

90-99

Activity was not run because conditions or schedules were not met.

95 = Scheduled start time expired
99 = Conditions cannot be met

The possible conditioning mode values are:

The condition mode indicates which systems the conditioning activity must have completed on before this activity can be performed.

*ALLNODES: The activity specified in this condition element must complete on all nodes before this activity can run.
*SAMENODE: When the conditioning activity specified completes for a given node, the activity specified on the ACTIVITY parameter may run for that same node even though the conditioning activity specified may not have completed for all other nodes. In the case where this activity lists a node not in the conditioning activity, this activity may run for that node; the condition is ignored.

Activity start time (STRTIME)

Specifies the date and time when this activity can start on the central site system. The current date and time values and next date values are determined when the change request is submitted.

The possible start after time values are:

*SAME: The value does not change.
*CURRENT: This activity can start any time on or after the time when the change request was submitted.
start-after-time: Specify the time when this activity can start. The time can be entered as 4 or 6 digits (hhmm or hhmmss) where hh = hours, mm = minutes, and ss = seconds. Seconds are optional. The time can be specified with or without a time separator such as a colon (:). With a time separator, specify a string of 5 or 8 digits (hh:mm or hh:mm:ss).

The possible start after date values are:

*SAME: The value does not change.
*CURRENT: This activity can start on or after the date on which the change request is submitted.
*NEXT: The activity can start on any date after the date the change request is submitted.
start-after-date: Specify the date after this activity can start. The date must be specified in the job date format.

The possible start before time values are:

This element is ignored if the start before date is *ANY.

*SAME: The value does not change.
*ANY: The activity can start at any time on or before the start before date.
*CURRENT: The activity must start before the time when the change request was submitted on the date specified on the start before date element. This value cannot be specified if the start before date is *CURRENT.
start-before-time: Specify the time before the activity must start. If the activity cannot be started before this time, it never starts. The time can be entered as 4 or 6 digits (hhmm or hhmmss) where h = hours, m = minutes, and s = seconds. Seconds are optional. The time can be specified with or without a time separator such as a colon (:). With a time separator, specify a string of 5 or 8 digits (hh:mm or hh:mm:ss).

The possible start before date values are:

*SAME: The value does not change.
*ANY: The activity can start at any time after the start after time and the start after date.
*CURRENT: The activity must start on the date the change request is submitted.
*NEXT: The activity must start by the day after the date the change request is submitted.
start-before-date: Specify the date before the activity must start. If the activity cannot be started by this date, it never starts. The date must be specified in the job date format.

Examples

Example 1: Changing an Activity

CHGCMDCRQA   CRQD(MYLIB/CR1)  ACTIVITY(ACT01)  CMD(STRSBS QCMN)

This command changes an activity that starts the QCMN subsystem.

Example 2: Changing an Activity for a Node List

CHGCMDCRQA   CRQD(MYLIB/CR2)  ACTIVITY(ACT01)
             CMD(STRSBS QSNADS)
             NODL(MYLIB/STORES)  RTNSPLF(*FAIL)

This example shows how activity ACT01 runs the command to start the subsystem QSNADS on the systems identified in the STORES node list. The example also asks for the spooled file to be returned to the central site system if the command fails.

Example 3: Changing an Activity for Two Systems

CHGCMDCRQA   CRQD(MYLIB/CR3)  ACTIVITY(ACT02)
             CMD(PRODLIB/RUNREPORTS)
             CPNAME((STORENET STOREA) (STORENET STOREB))
             RMTSTRTIME(*MGDSYS (19:00 11/20/02)
               (*ANY *CURRENT))  USRPRF(REPORTOPER)
             PASSWORD(OPERPASS)  ENCODE(*YES)

This example shows how activity ACT02 runs the detail reports for STOREA and STOREB after 7:00 p.m. on the managed system. The reports are run with the REPORTOPER user profile.