Gibney, Dave wrote:
As a small, really small, system supporter, I think a PARMLIB driven
option with a "fail by JCL error" (YES/NO) option if execution system is
different than "resolving" system would permit most of the requested
function (It's almost always time/date in dataset names) without
introducing the feared expansion to sysplex problems that aren't likely
to happen here or to many other small systems.
But, then, Shane's and other exits do this already, why should IBM
bother? Most schedulers can also do the most often requested
substitutions.
Agreed. However the schedulers have the functionality *BECAUSE* of lack
of this functionality in the OS. There are many ISV tools which solve
common user needs, needs known for years and ignored by IBM for years.
Another example would be all lack of even basic scheduler (don't tell me
about JES $TA) or WTO when job failed (non-scrollable one).
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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