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
>
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