On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 06:44:25 -0400, John Eells wrote: > >> > >> ... I expect to be informed of deficiencies of crontab, but at least > it's there. > ><snip> > > > >Why do you think crontab is "not there" in z/OS? > > > I'm aware that it's there, although only recently (from my perspective). > I don't know that it meets all the requirements of a job scheduler. > > And some readers of this list still prefer not to deal with UNIX. But > I guess that's a personal problem. > > (E.g coding dozens of lines of DFSORT commands where a single > "grep" would suffice.) > One could argue that DFSORT is superior due to it's extreme efficiency. Especially compared to "grep". But that only applies when one is running it in "heavy demand" situation. IMO, a slightly better case would be writing something in "awk" versus REXX. IMO, for an "ad hoc", awk might possibly beat REXX, if the programmer knows both. But only if the Co:Z hybrid batch product (free from Dovetailed Technologies!) is installed. I wish that IBM would license & bundle Co:Z with z/OS. That would increase it's legitimacy to staid I.T. managers. > > --gil > > -- Prof: So the American government went to IBM to come up with a data encryption standard and they came up with ... Student: EBCDIC! Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
