How to determine if Date Simulator is running on an LPAR?

Products

• Date Simulator

Issue/Introduction

Three CICS region have the following message in the CICS log. 

DATE SIMULATOR INSTALL FAILURE: DATE SIMULATOR NOT ACTIVE 

How to determine if the Date Simulator started task is active on a Z/OS LPAR?

Environment

Z/OS

CICS

Resolution

Date Simulator runs as a started task on the LPAR. To determine if Date Simulator is running on the LPAR run the SHOWWARP utility program as shown below. 

//SHOWWARP EXEC PGM=SHOWWARP                                        
//STEPLIB  DD   DISP=SHR,DSN=DATE-SIMULATOR.LOAD   
//SYSOUT   DD   SYSOUT=*                                            
//                                                                  

If the Date Simulator is NOT running on the LPAR you will receive message 

*DATE SIMULATOR SSCT IS NOT PRESENT    

If Date Simulator is running on the LPAR, the Date Simulator SSCT control block will appear in the report output as shown below.

 SSCT                                                                     
   00BCB540:0000  E2E2C3E3 00000000 E6C1D9D7 00000000  *SSCT....WARP....*  
   00BCB550:0010  00000000 00B165E0 00000000 D7D3C1E3   *............PLAT*  
   00BCB560:0020  00000000                                                         *....            *