On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:09:21 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >You keep missing the point that REXX does not currently provide the >serialization >that is available through JCL. Rewriting the job as a REXX script that does >not do >the necessary serialization is a CLM. > ??CLM??
>That's why I suggested a parallel allocation facility usable from REXX. > In order to avoid deadlocks, that parallel allocation facility must be invoked only once, and before any other SYSDSN ENQs are extant. There might be a way: launch the Rexx script from Unix System Services. Better yet, support //SYSEXEC DD PATH='/...' so no static ENQs are needed. RFE material? >I don't like JCL, but I don't see any way forward other than incremental >improvements. > Business case for those? And trimming the whiskers from JCL would create compatibility problems for users who have come to depend on them, even if only as circumventions. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
