Re: MVSCPCMD in batch

2019-06-04 Thread Tony Thigpen
All my VSE systems are under VM, but all my z/OS systems run native. But, with VSE, there are some things I don't want to do before the "CP IPL xxx' statement in the profile exec, so I do them as early as possible in the VSE IPLs Tony Thigpen John McKown wrote on 6/4/19 10:43 AM: On Tue,

Re: MVSCPCMD in batch

2019-06-04 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 8:28 AM Tony Thigpen wrote: > By "crippled", it could be during early IPL or late shutdown. > It's been too long since I actually worked on VM (VM/XA actually!). I remember setting up the MVS guest ID to IPL CMS and set things up using the PROFILE EXEC. But there wasn't

Re: MVSCPCMD in batch

2019-06-04 Thread Tony Thigpen
By "crippled", it could be during early IPL or late shutdown. Tony Thigpen John McKown wrote on 6/4/19 8:20 AM: On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 5:23 PM Tony Thigpen wrote: I would not convert it to LE. I have strong feelings that any system tool like this must be able to run in a crippled system

Re: MVSCPCMD in batch

2019-06-04 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 5:23 PM Tony Thigpen wrote: > I would not convert it to LE. > > I have strong feelings that any system tool like this must be able to > run in a crippled system with as little support from the OS as possible. > Hum. I hadn't thought of running this in a "crippled"

Re: MVSCPCMD in batch

2019-06-03 Thread Tony Thigpen
I would not convert it to LE. I have strong feelings that any system tool like this must be able to run in a crippled system with as little support from the OS as possible. As an opinion, I think that simple programs like this should not be converted to base-less programming either. One,

Re: MVSCPCMD in batch

2019-06-03 Thread John McKown
I am thinking of taking the source to this and "upgrading" it in a few ways: modify to use relative and immediate instructions; convert it to be LE; add code to run it as a Unix command. Also, rename it to ZOSCPCMD. Or am I just wasting my time?