Ted MacNEIL wrote: >>In my opinion, having one BIG job, may have a problem if one step abends, then you could have a problem with rerunning the offending step.
>You can also have the same problem with multiple jobs, and one abends. Especially, if the subsequent jobs still run. At least with the big job, or subsequent submissions, an abend stops the process. This is where scheduling package comes into play to prevent such incidents and tales of war stories describing such horrors. ;-D I do realize that not everyone has the privilige to have scheduling package or console monitor or such things. I also realize that one big jobs have their place. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

