Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running)

2013-05-03 Thread Frank Swarbrick
: Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:01 PM Subject: Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running) Sorry. No insult intended. But, you've been z/OS for what 3 years? How would you feel if a bunch of MVS'rs came and b*tched

Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running)

2013-05-03 Thread John McKown
From: Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:01 PM Subject: Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running) Sorry. No insult intended. But, you've been z/OS for what 3 years? How would you feel if a bunch of MVS'rs came

Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running)

2013-05-03 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running) If their way was better (and I've found some MVS processes to be better; I'm no VSE lover) I would look in to changing it.  Just because something has always been done this way doesn't

Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running)

2013-05-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5182df40.4090...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 05/02/2013 at 02:48 PM, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: I'm still astonished at the number of installations and software products from IBM in 2013 that continue to institutionalize this obsolete use of job names to identify ownership of

Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running)

2013-05-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1679697450-1367553714-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-195196643-@b12.c1.bise6.blackberry, on 05/03/2013 at 04:01 AM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said: Sorry. No insult intended. But, you've been z/OS for what 3 years? Perhaps, but he's still correct. How would you feel if a

Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running)

2013-05-02 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 5/2/2013 12:46 PM, Ed Gould wrote: Finding quality operators in the first place is always an issue. Having said that the nightmare of telling the difference between job and job is not easy and is just fraught with possibility of error and frankly in a shop where hundred (if not

Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running)

2013-05-02 Thread John Gilmore
Some shops have even institutionalized practices that produce duplicate jobname values. I know of one that long required development programmers who used the submit command to use their TSOIDs as the name of every job they submitted. I suggested that it would be helpful to these programmers if

Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running)

2013-05-02 Thread Ed Gould
NOT with the quality of operators we had ... Ed On May 2, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 5/2/2013 12:46 PM, Ed Gould wrote: Finding quality operators in the first place is always an issue. Having said that the nightmare of telling the difference between job and job is not

Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running)

2013-05-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 2 May 2013 17:22:51 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: Some shops have even institutionalized practices that produce duplicate jobname values. I know of one that long required development programmers who used the submit command to use their TSOIDs as the name of every job they All because they

Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running)

2013-05-02 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 5/2/2013 2:41 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 2 May 2013 17:22:51 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: Some shops have even institutionalized practices that produce duplicate jobname values. I know of one that long required development programmers who used the submit command to use their TSOIDs as

Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running)

2013-05-02 Thread Frank Swarbrick
They've been brainwashed. From: John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 3:22 PM Subject: Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running) Some shops have even institutionalized practices

Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running)

2013-05-02 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running) They've been brainwashed. From: John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 3:22 PM Subject: Re