On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Kris Buelens <[email protected]> wrote:

> As to close consoles: that is best done a bit after midnight: CP's timestamp
> for spool files is the time of open, so if one'd close consoles just before
> midnight at date "d", console files of very active machines will have
> timestamp "d", but most of its content will be about "d+1"

I believe a PROP action routine on the midnight message would do?  A
very basic routing table takes 20 lines or so, and the action routine
is probably less than that. And people should be running something
like PROP anyway.

For small questions like this, I think there is value in teaching
people how to do it with the parts that you got with z/VM, in addition
to telling them someone else did it before and wrote stuff that can do
10 times more than what you think you want today. Once you try things
yourself, you learn where the work of others fits in and can embrace
that as your own.

Some installations do not allow their staff to take gifts from
strangers for various reasons. We don't change that by questioning
that policy.

Rob

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