-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3490 off maintenance June 30 2007
On 2 Apr 2007 07:19:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pommier, Rex R.) wrote: >All true, except when the software vendor is keeping track internally >of GDG numbers and names, and is dynamically generating the JCL to >create these datasets. We were told by the vendor that it is 1 dataset >per tape due to their dynamic JCL generation and it won't be changing. >Yes, I'd LOVE to dump this vendor, but unfortunately they're the only >player in the field. You probably can still get around this with a JES exit or a program that receives the generated job stream. I suspect that many of us on this list (probably including you) could come up with a way to bring the vendor's method into conformance with your shop's direction without compromising vendor support. Clark, Understood, but the current political climate won't allow that. The software in question is actually "owned" by a DBA and neither of us has the time or energy to tackle something like this. In addition, the vendor is really picky about doing anything to change the way their system works. In addition, we're in a "get off the mainframe" project (year 7 of a 3 year process, but that's a different story) so I'm not supposed to spend any time supporting this. All told, the 3490s don't cost me much to maintain and rumor has it that "pretty soon now" we will be able to discontinue this process by replacing it with real-time updates between our IDMS database and Oracle sitting on HP-UX. Rex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
