Re: Submit a series of jobs in order aft er the pre vious has completedâ
In listserv%201104201750098101.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 04/20/2011 at 05:50 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I would expect your fingers would get tired before you could ever punch so many cards. But perhaps you have the luxury of data entry personnel to do that for you. FSVO luxury. I found that it took less of my time to punch my own cards than to correct the errors of the keypunch operators. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Submit a series of jobs in order aft er the pre vious has completedâ
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:54:11 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: Isn't there a 255 step limit? I regularly hit this problem with multi-step database backups/tape stacking type process. I would expect your fingers would get tired before you could ever punch so many cards. But perhaps you have the luxury of data entry personnel to do that for you. Regardless, this is Earth Week. I'm agahst at the slaughter of pulpwood trees to make those cards. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Submit a series of jobs in order aft er the pre vious has completedâ
I wrote a REXX program that built the JCL. It was only when I submitted the 4,000 step backup job that I realised I had to embed a job card every 255 steps and then the conundrum of how to prevent multiple jobs from executing and where this whole started from jogged my memory. On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:54:11 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: Isn't there a 255 step limit? I regularly hit this problem with multi-step database backups/tape stacking type process. I would expect your fingers would get tired before you could ever punch so many cards. But perhaps you have the luxury of data entry personnel to do that for you. Regardless, this is Earth Week. I'm agahst at the slaughter of pulpwood trees to make those cards. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Wayne V. Bickerdike -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
