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 mean it's better and should not be changed. In all of this discussion of MVS job names I have yet to hear a good justification for: - MVS jobs of the same name not running at the same time - MVS jobs starting with the users initials
What I have heard is there are many better ways to accomplish: - job sequencing - job user identification Just my opinion. Frank >________________________________ > From: Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >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 about 40+ years of >VSE practices that I'm sure are just as ingrained? > >How can you know where I'm at if you ain't where I've been? >Understand where I'm coming from? >- >Ted MacNEIL >[email protected] >Twitter: @TedMacNEIL > >-----Original Message----- >From: Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]> >Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> >Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 15:45:15 >To: <[email protected]> >Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Duplicate job names (Was: Check whether job still running) > >They've been brainwashed. > > > > >>________________________________ >> From: John Gilmore <[email protected]> >>To: [email protected] >>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 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 they could suffix a single character to that jobname to help them >>to distinguish such jobs from each other; and they were then >>grudgingly permitted to do so; not all of them, however, make use of >>this freedom. >> >>John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
