Lindy, These details are a little sketchy. Could you add some more details?
What STC (Is it a vendor product or something else)? Can you show us your display details that you were looking at? Show us the SJ output? Anything else relevant? Thanks Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 3:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Scheduled STCs running as instream procs? > > No machines are as customizable as mainframes, especially ones that have been > running for decades. Sometimes things are hard to figure out, especially if > the machine goes from the owner to outsourced or whatever, and all that, then > people are "let go" and new people have to take over and try to understand. > Lots of times my job is to help with such transitions. > > Today I saw something I've never seen before. I wanted to know where a > started task was running from and normally the SDSF jes2 log shows which > proclib it was loaded from. But it said it was instream, and looking at the > SJ jcl it didn't look "normal." > > $DPROCS showed something weird, I forget, but it was some proclib DD's, two or > 3 of them, then the system proclibs by name (SYS1.PROCLIB, etc....). > > When I stopped the STC, it started right back up again, which meant automation > software was there. It also meant that any proc of the same name in any of > the SYS1. or similar proclibs wouldn't start before the ones that seems to be > dynamically allocated in some way. > > Anyone have any idea what software I'm dealing with? I'll get around this by > simply creating a new STC name with STDATA and new USER and putting it in one > of the proclibs like SYS1.VDR.PROCLIB, but I'd like to understand if I can > what I wasted a few hours trying to figure out and never did. :) > > Thanks and kind regards! > Lindy > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
