On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:43:38 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > >... Because DOS/VS had native support for source and object >libraries, those were kept online, but there was no decent native >support to effectively submit production job JCL from libraries ... > Astonishing. You could RYO editor but not RYO "SUBMIT".
>... and the >company was averse to spending on "unneeded" additional software, so >production JCL was created in OLE' but punched and kept on cards for use >by Operations. > The supplies must have been cheap. >When we started DOS/VSE to MVS/XA migration in 1985, we were already >running the maximum of four, shared-SPOOL DOS/VSE systems under VM ... > Was that limit imposed by VM or by the DOS/VSE shared spool? I'd suspect the latter. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
