Re: Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

2009-10-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 10/10/2009 at 01:41 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: >The OUTPUT JCL statement, Then you're talking about a length restriction of OUTPUT, not of SJF. >The vendor appears to be IBM, Not even close; you gave the right answer to a question that nobody asked. It should have been clear from cont

Re: Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

2009-10-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:08:30 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >In , on 10/09/2009 > at 09:45 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: > >>FSVO "arbitrary". This is the USERDATA parameter, isn't it?. > >Userdata parameter of what? > The OUTPUT JCL statement, which I found by following a chain of references

Re: Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

2009-10-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 10/09/2009 at 09:45 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: >FSVO "arbitrary". This is the USERDATA parameter, isn't it?. Userdata parameter of what? There are vendors adding their own DD keywords via SJF; I don't know whether they are under NDA's. If not, perhaps one of them could comment on len

Re: Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

2009-10-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 17:52:00 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>There's a smoldering need here for a means to pass arbitrary name/value >>pairs from JCL to job processing components other than by steganographic >>jobname coding. > >SJF. Unfortunately, IBM has only documented its use for DD a

Re: Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

2009-10-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 10/03/2009 at 03:26 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: >There's a smoldering need here for a means to pass arbitrary name/value >pairs from JCL to job processing components other than by steganographic >jobname coding. SJF. Unfortunately, IBM has only documented its use for DD and OUTPUT state

Re: Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

2009-10-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Arthur Gutowski wrote: ... AFAIK, JES3 still does not allow for duplicate jobnames to exeute in tandem without modification (other than the bypass for UNIX tasks). I agree it's crazy. I suspect nearly every JES3 shop in the world has this (very old) one line modification in place: ++SRC

Re: Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

2009-10-05 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:53:47 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: >I have personally not put my userid into a job name in nearly 25 years. >If I submit a job to compress a PDS, it's called "COMPRESS". That's what >makes sense to me. Except when there are hundreds or thousands of applications to support (n

Re: Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

2009-10-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:53:47 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: > >(E)JES taught me the "hard" way that a VERY significant number--possibly >the vast majority--of JES2/SDSF installations still do job/spool >security by job name. And, most of them don't want to invest one iota of >extra time to convert from

Re: Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

2009-10-02 Thread Edward Jaffe
Frank Swarbrick wrote: Edward Jaffe wrote: It's not at all surprising to me that IBM completely dropped support for ISFPARMS with SDSF for JES3 in z/OS 1.10. Ed, you just made my day! Though I have no idea what ISFPARMS is, it sounds like that may be a good thing. :-) I'm usin

Re: Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

2009-10-02 Thread Frank Swarbrick
>>> On 10/2/2009 at 5:53 PM, in message <4ac6928b.7000...@phoenixsoftware.com>, Edward Jaffe wrote: > Frank Swarbrick wrote: >> I am not a system programmer, but I am certainly trying to control my own > destiny. Which is why I am arguing for reasonable standards, or better yet > in this case,

Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

2009-10-02 Thread Edward Jaffe
Frank Swarbrick wrote: I am not a system programmer, but I am certainly trying to control my own destiny. Which is why I am arguing for reasonable standards, or better yet in this case, the ability to name my job what ever I want and not be forced to some silly standard from the 1960's. So y