FYI, there's a new release of the JZOS toolkit available on IBM's alphaWorks site:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/zosjavabatchtk Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies ================================================ README for IBM JZOS Batch Toolkit for z/OS SDKs alphaWorks preview Before you Begin: ================= Note that the alphaWorks version of JZOS is not covered by IBM support. If you encounter problems with this version, you should use the alphaWorks forum to report problems and/or have your questions answered. Installation: ============= Please refer to the document: "JZOS alphaWorks Installation.pdf" in the "doc" directory of this distribution for installation instructions. 2.1.1 New Features: =================== - Changed PdsDirectory to read PDSE dirs as well as PDS dirs. - Wrappers for CatalogSearch, LOCATE and OBTAIN. - Sample program that illustrates the usage of the above three wrappers: com.ibm.jzos.sample.CatalogSearchSample. - Field converters for Assembler and COBOL datatypes (package com.ibm.jzos.fields) This package also includes Factory classes for COBOL and Assembler. - Class com.ibm.jzos.sample.MedicareRecord as a field converter sample. - *Preliminary* support for automatic generation of record classes from Assembler DSECTs (package com.ibm.jzos.recordgen.asm). See the sample JCL member DSECTGEN. 2.1.0 New Features: =================== - Batch Launcher jar executables: If the first two arguments supplied to the launcher are "-jar /path/to/jarfile", the manifest of the indicated jar file will examined to determine which main() class to run. - MVS job submission and status with Java/Rexx integration: See the javadoc and sample code for com.ibm.jzos.sample.MvsJobSubmitter - DFSORT Java interface and sample programs: See the javadoc and sample code for the package com.ibm.jzos.sample.dfsort - z/OS Logstream interfaces for IXGCONN (connect) and IXGWRITE (write): See the javadoc for com.ibm.jzos.ZLogstream for details. - Features added to com.ibm.jzos.ZUtil - System Management Facility (SMF) interface via the __smf_record() C library routine. - CPU time interface via the clock() C-library routine. - Process ID interfaces via the getpid() and getppid() C-library routines. License: ======== For license information, refer to the contents of the "licenses" directory ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
