JES3 Has one -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, June 5, 2017 7:09 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
