On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 03:04:24 -0500, Brian Westerman <[email protected]> wrote:
>Started jobs also allow you to use DD * and some other features that were not >available for STC's. I think use of a JOBcard for CICS regions and the DD * >were the top uses that I have seen at shops I've consulted with. > >Unless there was a really good reason to do so, I don't think I would try to >convince a site to start using it now. Things aren't the same as they used to >be when it made more sense to use it. > I completely disagree. Besides the sysin mentioned, the biggest use I've seen is to change the MSGCLASS from the STC default. For example, to send all the output to a output management product. How else would you do it outside of starting the STCs you want with the MSGCLASS=n parm? Sure you could add that to automation, but what if you want to change it or decide you want to add / subtract something? A heck of a lot easier to go change a job card in a PDS than automation. I have been using it since it was available. My first use was to change things like INIT and BPXAS to have a MSGCLASS of a JES2 purge class (aka "bit bucket"). That you can't even do with automation since those ASIDs are not started by a human nor automation. My default STC MSGCLASS output has typically been a held class on most systems I have worked on. But I have also worked on systems where the default is purge, and this is another easy way to change what you need to a non-purge msgclass. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] ITIL v3 Foundation Certified Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
