Other things wait for OMVS to initialize. Why not BPXBATCH/SH? I had/have an assembler stub to STIMER I used to use. Then I saw this method here or over in MVS-OE and decided it was more "vanilla".
I will be forwarding over to OE as Ed suggests for additional discussion. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Scott Ford > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 2:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Silent but missing before OMVS initialization > > Dave, > > How can you execute a USS command without it being up ? If you need to > sleep you could use rexx if you had to ,,,I looked at the manual the > sleep cmd hasn't apparently changed > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > from my IPAD > > 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > > > > On Dec 23, 2013, at 5:39 PM, "Gibney, Dave" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have been using //SLEEP EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,PARM='SH sleep &SECONDSs' > as a delay step in some of my STCs to wait for things like TCPIP to get > up first. I know there are other options. > > It appears with my new z/OS 1.13 system, that prior to OMVS being up > > and functioning, this sleep command just returns with RC=0 > > > > Is this expected behavior? > > > > Dave Gibney > > Information Technology Services > > Washington State University > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
