This is a CONSOLE restriction having nothing directly to do with TSO. A console name, even if only a temporary one, belongs to the entire sysplex. There can be only one at any given time. Attempts to create a duplicate will fail as long as the original remains active.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 7:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Rexx console question On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 04:31:03 -0500, Tony Thigpen wrote: >I am using CONSOLE ACTIVATE in batch jobs to issue messages to the operator. > >Most of the time, it works flawlessly, but if two jobs are running at >the same time, one of the jobs receives an error on the ACTIVATE ane >the message is never issued. > >I am using running the rexx using IKJEFT01. Both jobs are under the >same userid. > Is this a consequence of IKJEFT01's enforcing TSO's antediluvian requirement that no user ID have multiple concurrent jobs? TSO oughta fix that, even as it finally fixed the 7-character userid restriction. Use TSUnnnnn, not user ID to identify a session. Can you try writing to /dev/console? I've done it regularly. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
