On 1/8/2014 10:41 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
And no one thought to ask, "Why?"
Apparently not. The hardware and support staff is two states away, and the local management doesn't seem to get involved in "minor" details.
Isn't that what the CATALOG is for?
I didn't want to write a monograph. Their tape data sets comprise up to 100 volumes, although I suspect that with the advent of cartridges that will have shrunk somewhat. They had IBM maintained mods to support that, but I had no access to them. Obviously they didn't provide JCL support, JFCB extensions, or catalog mods.
But I shouldn't be too hard on them; I also worked on a contract supporting a large NYC insurance company where a non-setup job would get four to eight hour turnaround, tapes had to be specified on JCL comments cards, and turnaround for a simple tape job was one to two days.
By comparison a service bureau I worked at provided while-you-wait turnaround (5-10 minutes) for small jobs, and short jobs with a tape or disk mount finished almost as fast (360/65, later a 165). One of my local changes was a rewrite of the JES2 job scheduling code to consider priority before job class.
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