You're right about the cyclical refresh of auto commands. Without some kind of intervention, JES2 auto commands with T= will expire at midnight. So we schedule an auto command for midnight to reinstate all auto commands. The process is remarkably resilient. I recall only a handful of failures in 25 years.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 8:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Is there a JES2 command to submit a job? *** EXTERNAL EMAIL - Use caution when opening links or attachments *** Thanks. > why not AUTO Trying to keep things simple. Trying to avoid one more piece in the puzzle if possible. Nothing whatsoever against AUTO specifically or the CBT tape in general. > issue SLEEP on schedule Great idea. I will look into that. > Self-perpetuating job, that submits itself as its last step Something about that bothers me. A failure would end the chain until manual intervention restarted it. I know, I am not being entirely logically consistent here. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Wayne Bickerdike Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 8:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a JES2 command to submit a job? Charles, Why don't you grab a copy of AUTO from the CBT tape. It has a scheduler function. We use it on Dallas to schedule the SLEEP command after business hours to save some costs. We also have a schedule set up to do ADRDDSU backups and an offsite FTP. You could also have a job that submits itself to the internal reader when it completes, code it as TYPRUN=HOLD and have AUTO release it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
