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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 5:09 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?
> 
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2017 22:52:30 +0000, Rob Schramm  wrote:
> 
> >Serious topic swing.. making a new thread. Isn't there a free-ish or
> >CBT tape Job Scheduler?
> >
> I've always thought it strange that OS/360 ... z/OS never had one built-in;
> something that's routine on other OSes (crontab ...).  Is it just IBM's 
> practice
> of not competing with ISVs?  I expect to be informed of deficiencies of
> crontab, but at least it's there.
> 
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2017 15:46:11 -0500, John McKown wrote:
> >> 
> >> <Snip>
> >> I have actually considered whether it would be "interesting" to write
> >> some sort of "job scheduler" on z/OS. I don't have too much trouble
> >> with figuring out the internals to submit & track jobs. The problem
> >> is the UX & UI design. I fear my approach would be "by a programmer,
> >> for other programmers".
> 
> -- gil
> 
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