Re: TWS replacements

2021-01-24 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
To complement: there are several products from several companies. BMC ControlM CA ESP (now Broadcom) CA-7 IBM IWS aka TWS aka OPC ASG-ZEKE former BETA 42 Tidal Workload Automation schedule-in OPS/Jobmaster ActiveBatch JAMS Scheduler Stonebranch ... Note: some of the above products have only z/OS

Re: (External):Re: TWS replacements

2021-01-24 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
We converted from another product to TWS some years ago. It was a massive and lengthy effort just to arrive at a point similar to where we left. I don't know how much we saved on the s/w, but it provided an awful lot of employment. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electr

Re: How to validate mount points for IPLs

2021-01-24 Thread R.S.
Well, In my opinion there is no such tool or process. Few remarks: 1. Assuming you have such checker and just tested BPXPRM member. Few minutes later things may change - someone can delete or rename some ZFS. Or just modify BPXPRM. 2. "Prior IPL" is a little bit ambigous. Does it mean the system

Re: TWS replacements

2021-01-24 Thread Mitch Mccluhan
...in all fairness, TWS (initially OPC, now IWS), provides all the support and solutioning as mentioned by Mark in his email.  One of the major benefits of IWS (and this is just one of many) is that being an IBM product, it has the most prolific set of interfaces to the zOS environment includin

Re: SMP/E and Isolating a CSECT within a load module

2021-01-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 04:15:28 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >What is the point of specifying an entry point on the END statement of, e.g., >a Bessel function subroutine? > Imagine an implementation where that Bessel function might be invoked by LINK. > >Fro

Re: How to validate mount points for IPLs

2021-01-24 Thread Jousma, David
Hi lizette, For all the zos mounts, I use my service mount batch job as the template for those in parmlib with modifications to syntaxes to fit. Everything else for /tmp, ,etc, dev, and any other ancillary vendor, user file systems are ieheyeball. There aren't many that would fail an ipl ent

(personal) status update

2021-01-24 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
To whom it may concern I just changed my subscription details - new email. Reason: My previous email is no longer available, because I no longer work anymore for my previous employer. Big change after 22 years and I have no experience in changing listserv account parameters. I hope I did it wel