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.

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> On Behalf Of Scott Ford
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 2:46 PM
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> 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
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> 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means'
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> 
> > 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
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