>>I think IBM's package is OPC. >It's under the Tivoli umbrella. Actually it's Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) for z/OS. Tivoli Operations Planning and Control (OPC) was withdrawn in 2001, replaced with TWS.
http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/scheduler-zos/ With respect to competition, and assuming CA's acquisition, my possibly too brief search shows 8 companies (including IBM) with products in this category. The others are, in alphabetical order, ASG, BMC, CA, Exspans, Mantissa, SEA, and UC4. I like IBM's. :-) - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

