We do. Roscoe is so deeply embedded here, but as a shop we are also functionally stabilizing it, in that we are not adding anything new to that environment, and in fact, as we migrate to new products(change management, etc), they don’t get put back into Roscoe. The handwriting is on the wall, but for now I still have to support that environment for some time to come.
This is all coming about because we are abandoning a long held test batch job naming standard here that is comprised of T+roscoe prefix to using userid. We have so much highly customized infrastructure to support it. All Roscoe job security is based on the roscoe prefix in the jobname vs securing by job owner. Test jobs in TSO/ISPF are based on userid, and some userids actually conflict with the roscoe standards causing confusion with Roscoe users. We have more and more non-Roscoe developers working in TSO/ISPF and one day we will retire Roscoe. All of our development tools(debug, fault analyzer, file manager, etc) are all ISPF based that most of the long timers here are straddling the fence using both. I guess I will be adding the SAF calls to the Roscoe Console exit, assuming we can get that to work. Otherwise it will probably be another nail in the coffin of Roscoe. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CA-Roscoe shops around? Do you have TSO/ISPF and SDSF? Or CA Sysview? Or any other tool to use for sysprogs / operations so you can just leave Roscoe as is with "read only" console access to those you chose to let use the command at all? Or you could just use CONSOLE under TSO, that isn't much worse than the Roscoe console command. If you are looking for something a bit more friendly, I have used this rexx exec from a redbook: Extended MCS Console via ISPF doc: This is from Appendix G. of the following Red Book: OS/390 MVS Multisystem Consoles Implementing MVS Sysplex Operations. SG24-4626-00 download from the internet. either: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks OR ftp ftp.almaden.ibm.com user: anonymous password: your email address cd redbooks/SG244646 get emcs.code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is my personal setup, I don't recall if these are the names used or recommended in the Redbook CLIST: CONS (invoking clist) REXX: CNDS ISPF COMMAND TABLE: CNDSCMDS PANELS: USRCN & USRCNS -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:[email protected] 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 This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
