On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Thompson, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Don Russell > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: /*XEQ /*XMIT question > > <SNIPPAGE> > > That's an interesting idea. > At one point I was thinking of something similar (I think).. > submitting one job to the MVS system that has the procs, then that job > builds a job stream and use /*XMIT and submits it the an internal > reader. > > It's fun, but perhaps a little convoluted. :-) > <SNIP> > > Now, if I might ask a question here: What happens if there is a syntax > error in/with the JOB "card". Who detects the problem and how do you > find out what the error is?
You mean on the second job card? Good question. :-) That's why I liked /*XMIT etc... it seems to replicate the original JOB card, so if there's problems with that, the original job stream is rejected in whatever manner is "normal". Of course that means passwords etc must be synchronized across the different MVS systems, but that becomes a user problem. :-) > > My reason for asking goes back many years to the differences in JOB > syntax/parameters between MVS and MVS/SP2 and so the handling of this > was changed. For now all our MVS systems are at the same level, but it's easy to imagine a time when they won't be. i.e We would never upgrade them all at the same time, at the very least there would be a few days between each. That would leave a period where "we'd have a problem". Well, during the course of this e-mail thread, I've been discussing it with other people here at work: The consensus is: Keep the model proc on VM and always submit it as an inline proc to the correct MVS system. OK, that's simple enough...and is reliable etc. Thank you all for the discussion. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
