On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:06:07 -0400, Donald Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>Thanks for the assurances, John...one last question - do you (or anyone >else) know of any writeups on advantages or benefites, or any statistical >information on using started jobs vs standard jobs? > I don't, but a couple of advantages / benefits I can think of are: 1) Easily overriding the STC default MSGCLASS or other class defaults via JOBCARD instead of on the start command. [1] 2) Supplying accounting information for the entire STC instead of having to code it on all steps when there are multiple steps. [1] Many people don't realize that at the same time the started jobs support came in, enhancements were made to the START command to support JOBCARD parameters. For example, you don't need to implement started jobs if all you want is to have your CICS STC started with a different MSGCLASS than the STC default: S CICSPROD,MSGCLASS=H Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
