Paul, How would this help anyone? What benefits would it have over BPXBATCH (or COZBATCH) ?
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com/products/cozbatch.html On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:09:13 -0600, John McKown wrote: >> >>I think that in this case, "batch" means "invoked via a JCL EXEC PGM=. I >>hope it doesn't mean when invoked via BPXBATCH as a UNIX process. But, >>then, you can't do a >> >>//STEPNAME EXEC PGM=lcpgm >>//STEPLIB DD PATH='/path/to/my/bin/directory' >>// >> >>Is there any way to invoke an HFS resident program via EXEC PGM=? >> > This topic came by a couple years ago. One of the IBM experts > (Jim M? Peter R? pernaps) was pleasantly surprised to be told that > limited (read-only) BPAM support exists for HFS directories. His > reaction then seemed to be that it then should not be so difficult. > The hardest part is likely to be getting the C/I to accept the > apostrophes in "// EXEC PGM='true'". > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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

