On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 08:33:33 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>
>>> 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. ...
>>>
There's some old lore (on MVS-OE?) that the design objective was the ability
to run started tasks from UNIX program objects; nothing more.
>... 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?
>
There's a rumor (but perhaps from a beta site) that AOPBATCH is shipped
with z/OS and works regardless that the customer doesn't "buy the product".
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Just don't ask OCC.
-- gil
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