> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL
>
> >Seems to be "six of one, a half-dozen of the
> other". We currently run
> CICSes as batch jobs.
>
> We do both. They started converting to started tasks a few
> years ago. They stopped after all the test regions were
> converted (I wasn't here at the time, so I don't know why).
<speculation>
Maybe they had some regions interconnected via MRO using XM services and
those regions were "asynchronously" shutdown and restarted periodically,
eventually leaving them with a bunch of non-reusable address spaces.
</speculation>
-jc-
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