I am seriously starting to think about a "learning" project. That is, this will be done on my own time, not using company resources. It will be developed, probably slowly, on a friend's z/OS 2.2 system. The application will use facilities which only exist on z/OS 2.1 and above. In particular, the JES2 Symbol Service and ENF event code 78 (job notify). It will be made available on the CBTape.org site because that is one of the "requirements" my friend has required for my use of his system. Which is good by me. The project could possibly be used as a free "job scheduling" type of system, but not "job restart". My plans are that it would have z/OS batch, TSO, and UNIX interfaces. It will most likely use UNIX system services internally for some things, so UNIX will be a _hard_ prerequisite. Since it _will_ require use of ENF, it _will_ require being APF authorized. Though only the STC portion, not the user interface portion. Yes, the main functionality will run as an STC aka "UNIX daemon", since the STC/daemon will be using UNIX services.
I plan to use the MIT license for it. Mainly because I don't have access to any legal representation should anybody decide to, uh, "use" the code in violation of a stronger license (I, personally, like the GPL). Basically, an MIT license says: "Use as you please. You can even use it as the basis of other, closed source, products. But don't blame me if the code turns your machine into Silly Putty ®" At least, that's my take on it. Anyway, I'm still thinking of how it will be designed. But I am curious if the requirement of z/OS 2.1 would make it unusable to a lot of people here. I know we have some members who are still on OS/390. My employer is stabilized on z/OS 1.12. Oh, any _decent_ ideas about what to call this? I'm so non-marketing oriented, I would likely call is YAJSTS (Yet Another Job Submission & Tracking System). Which a decent synopsis of what it _is_, but is not pronounceable. I'll work on that name. -- How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
