On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 5:56 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > IMO, you could replace all your JCL with REXX code. > > You'd have a hard time with scheduling if you tried that. > > > But then the programmer needs to be a REXX expert > > Why? Most users aren't JCL experts. Besides, in some ways REXX is simpler. > I agree, but CA-7 & CA-11 do the "hard lifting" for the staff WRT to scheduling & restarting. Hopefully after a programmer has fixed whatever caused the initial problem. > > > Hum, how do the Windows experts "restart" a "job" that fails? > > How does z/OS? There are stringent limitations on checkpoint restart. Step > restart is less constrained but not always appropriate. > Does anybody actually use that? In 40+ years, I've never seen it used. Perhaps because I've never been in a really large shop. I was thinking of CA-11 which tracks a job & allows restarting easily by a production control type person (likely not a programmer). > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
