Sorry I was slow to notice and respond to this since I wrote and maintain the mods for quite a few releases now. It seems the answers have already been pounded home, but yes, the /*WITH and /*AFTER are originally from the SHARED SPOOL MODS, and are used to enhance batch job selection. The $DR (Display Resources) was discontinued after IBM introduced the WLM Scheduling Environments which now handle most of the original function you could get from the SHARED SPOOL MODS.
The mods are still around and alive, they now include some interesting features such as holding jobs until a specific time of day (/*HOLDTIL) or a specific length of time (/*HOLDFOR hh:mm:ss). Other interesting features allow you to limit the number of jobs that can start in a given job class for a single system within a MAS - JES2 only allows you to set a max for the MAS, and this works for traditional batch as well as WLM managed job classes. You can also set maximums for jobs based on USERID and JOBNAME masks - this keeps those pesky overseas folks from 'overloading the system' with a few dozen high CPU usage jobs all at the same time - that keeps down the 3:00am phone calls anyway. If anyone is interested, take a look at file 766 in the "latest updates are always available to download here" section of the WWW.CBTTAPE.ORG web site. The description of for 1.7 and 1.8, but 1.9 should work fine, and I will be sending out an update specifically for 1.9 in the next month or so. Stephen G. McColley [email protected] Atlanta, GA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
