Thank you all. @Seymour, it's working now and if it ain't broke ...
@Matthew, ditto. Thanks, but ditto. @Wendell, the only person with authority to issue $T would have been me, and I did not. I think usage patterns changed. We have a new developer. I don't think he is doing anything "wrong" but he may be doing something that we were not doing before. Or doing more of something. Or IBM made a change. Or Mercury is retrograde. Or ... @Gil, Dallas is what Dallas is. It is partially pre-configured, and partially up to the customer to administer. That is basically good. If I were writing a vendor product and needed to see how it behaved if z/OS were configured in some particular way, we can do that. OTOH, they do all of the PTF-type administration for us, and all of the IBM product installs. I think yes, the nature of z/OS is that you cannot expect to buy a Z box, plug it in, and start doing useful work without some sysprog activity. I don't know -- is Linux really "out of the box" for a big, serious, multi-application load? Could someone run a "big Linux shop" without a skilled Linux admin on board? @sas, forgot to say thank you. Thank you. @Ed, FWIW, we have started tasks now with JOB cards and no use of IEFJOBs. Might have been better with IEFJOBs, but I was looking for the fastest, easiest and least complex solution, and I think I have it. Again, thanks all for your patience with my "not a sysprog." Charles On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:41:23 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >Thanks. That means that the installation can use any of the normal controls. >I'd advise making BPXAS JESLOG=SPIN. > >________________________________________ >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of >Matthew Stitt <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 12:48 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: What is BPXAS and how do I make them stop piling up? > >Here is my entry in IEFJOBS: > >//BPXAS JOB (SYSTEMS),'USS ADDRESS',MSGCLASS=Z >//BPXAS EXEC PROC=BPXAS,GETWORK=BPXPRJSR > >So, yes, IEFJOBS does work. > >Matthew > >On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:36:40 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > >>That mentions accounting information for the BPXOINIT and OMVS address >>spaces, but it doesn't mention it for BPXAS. I made a SWAG that BPXAS might >>go through standard STC processing, including the master IEFJOB concatenation >>and the JES2 JOBCLASS(STC), in which case they would control selection of a >>proclib and output disposition. As usual, it's the sort of thing that I would >>look up in the logic manuals if they still existed. Lacking documentation, >>only a test will determine whether I guessed correctly. >> >> >>-- >>Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >>http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 >> >>________________________________________ >>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of >>Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] >>Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 11:25 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: What is BPXAS and how do I make them stop piling up? >> >>On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:04:22 -0500, Wendell Lovewell < wrote: >> >>>Charles, imo Seymour was on the right track. >>> >>>Could it have been that someone issued a $T JOBCLASS command? (Or maybe >>>from SDSF.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
