On 2014-12-30, at 15:54, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: > I am not going to respond about the ISPF PACK option, that has been answered > by posts already. > > I would like to add some information about the use of PIPEs in JCL and > otherwise. > > #1 There is a product that I think it can still be ordered but not really > supported anymore and I am not sure of the name, but one of it's features was > that it provided a TSO PIPE command. I think it was part of the product, > "BatchPipes for OS/390 Version 2 Release 1, the main function was to provide > the capability of multiple jobs running on different LPARs to provide data to > another job, via a "PIPE", but it also provided a TSO command, "PIPE" that > provided PIPE functions, in the same style as what is built into NETVIEW. > An example: PIPE > DDNAME=XYZ | CHANGE /abc/cba/ | > DDNAME=ZYX > It is not like UNIX PIPEs, but somewhat the same functionality. > > #2. I went to www.ibm.com and did a search on "mvs batchpipes" and among the > hits, was this article: "Two Kinds of PIPEs" > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/MartinPacker/entry/two_kinds_of_pipes5?lang=en > This is called, somewhat optimistically, by its partisans, "CMS/TSO Pipelines":
http://vm.marist.edu/~pipeline/#BPW People have reported difficulties ordering the TSO flavor: some sales reps can't identify the product. The page cited provides a part number for the documentation but none for the product. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN