On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 8:21 AM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19/10/2017 9:10 PM, John McKown wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 4:47 AM, David Crayford <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Thanks Kirk! >>> >>> Using your _BPX_SHAREAS=MUST tip with __spawnp2() I was able to knock up >>> something similar to COZBATCH. While not anyway near as comprehensive it >>> does allow us to ship a batch job utility that can install a web server >>> from a PDS pax member using a script inspired by your Tomcat installation >>> comments. It was surprisingly easy using pipes and select() as you >>> suggested. It's mind boggling why the IBM utilities are so poor. >>> >> >> If you're talking about BPXBATCH in the "so poor" comment, I'd guess that >> it was determined to be needed "late in the game". So something was >> written >> quickly to get some basic functionality going. It then became enshrined in >> the temple of backward compatibility. And now, as is often asked, what do >> we want IBM to stop doing in order to "fix" BPXBATCH to "run reasonably"? >> IMO, what IBM needs to do is license COZBATCH from Dovetailed Technologies >> and distribute it with z/OS. There is precedent for this because JZOS >> (Java) was original a Dovetailed Technologies product. >> > > Why don't IBM just provide a BPXSHELL program that does the right thing? > It's a piece of cake to implement and AOPBATCH already does it, which is an > IBM product. Ah, and so you answered your own question. You want a good IBM UNIX JCL invocation program? Just buy the product which supplied AOPBATCH ! {grin} I will agree with you if you say that IBM should just include AOPBATCH with z/OS, with BPXBATCH being an alias to it. But then why should IBM give away what they currently get money for? > I use COZBATCH but we can't ship it to customers so that's why I wrote my > own. I can't talk for Kirk and Steve but I don't think they want to sell > their Co:Z toolkit to IBM when they have plenty of customers paying for > support. > -- I just child proofed my house. But the kids still manage to get in. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
