On 6/5/2017 8:08 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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:
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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".
JES2 has had timed commands in JES2 for as long as I can remember.
True, it came after OS/360, but so did cron for Unix.
Regards,
Tom Conley
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