Skip Robinson of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 08/31/2007 11:58:23 AM:
> Generic warning to be careful using anything from the CBT tape to issue TSO > commands via CONSOLE. I gave a Bit Bucket segment in San Diego on > adventures with the StarTool (aka PDS Command) started task commonly > installed as 'PDSE'. This is an ancient component of the product--hence not > updated for many years. As of z/OS 1.8, an old program that uses a one-byte > console id will fail to return WTO output to the issuing console. There are > new keywords for CONSOLxx to get 'unknown' responses to any particular > console, but you have to know how to set them up. > > I'm guessing that a lot of CBT programs still use one-byte ids. > > BTW Serena has fixed the problem in their version of the product. > TSSO, CBT file 404, has been updated for the z/OS 1.8 level. Regards, John K ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
