Date:         Thu, 22 May 2003 11:12:43 -0500
Reply-To:     Sterling Price <Sterling.Price@WAL-MART.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Sterling Price <Sterling.Price@WAL-MART.COM>
Subject:      Re: ping from SAS (MVS)?
Comments: To: "cassell.david@epamail.epa.gov" <cassell.david@epamail.epa.gov>
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Well, I was planning on doing it in a macro loop, so as I envision it I'd
only be sending out one ping at a time. That may take a while though.

Thanks,

Sterling Price


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From: cassell.david@epamail.epa.gov
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Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:04 AM
To: Sterling Price
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Subject: Re: ping from SAS (MVS)?



Sterling Price <Sterling.Price@WAL-MART.COM> replied:
> No worries about the sites being pinged - these are all on our
internal WAN
> and will respond if they are alive.

But that's still a lot of sites to ping.  Isn't this going to
lead to a network traffic issue?

> >Also, an FYI, there is a version of PERL for MVS.
>
> Very interesting indeed. I'll have to ask our admins why we don't have
it
> installed...so many things would be so much easier if I could have
Perl on
> the mainframe.  I wonder if it requires HFS? Maybe that's why I
haven't seen
> it -- we don't use HFS much, though I know it's available.

As far as I know, Perl installs fairly easily on MVS even without
HFS.  But your admin group may not want to have to support Perl
on your big iron.  If you do get Perl and use that, then check out
the many modules on CPAN which have ping features, starting with
(of course) Net::Ping and going on to ones with additional ICMP
and even ARP-ping facilities.

HTH,
David
--
David Cassell, CSC
Cassell.David@epa.gov
Senior computing specialist
mathematical statistician


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