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

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