On my local systems the jobnames default to userid + one character. If I submit JCL with a job card that uses //BOLAN JOB the system will automatically prompt me for the last letter. So no editing of the JCL is necessary to control the jobname. I had assumed that this was typical. --Roger
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Frank Swarbrick < [email protected]> wrote: > I have a complaint (shocking, I know). What is the reasoning behind MVS > not allowing more than one job with the same name to run at the same time? > For instance just now I wanted to do an IDCAMS PRINT on two files. I do > this often on VSE with a job I have set up that has this: > PRINT INFILE(FILE1) - > DUMP > > I simply change FILE1 to whatever the name is and submit it. Then if I > have another one I change it again to the second file and submit it. These > are large files so it makes sense to have them both run at the same time, > rather than one after the other. But unless I change the job name on the > JOB card on z/OS the second one won't run until the first is done. > Annoying! Why on earth is this restriction present? Does it actually > *help* some situations, or is it simply one of those annoying things that > has existed forever and will probably never be changed? > > Thanks (really!), > Frank > > -- > > Frank Swarbrick > Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development > FirstBank Data Corporation - Lakewood, CO USA > P: 303-235-1403 > > > >>> > > The information contained in this electronic communication and any document > attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the > exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of > this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent > responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying > of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you > have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the > sender by reply e-mail and destroy this communication. Thank you. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
