I believe that the facility is as old as TSO itself. In those days a track of DASD was by today's standards ridiculously expensive. How many things do we do today just as we did them back then? I still put my pants on one leg a time. But that's about it.
. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 11:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Notify for XMIT On Fri, 15 May 2015 17:14:27 +0000, J O Skip Robinson wrote: > >The main problem with using SYS1.BRODCAST for directed messages is that all >users defined at the last ACCOUNT SYNC are candidates for message store. If a >user defined at that time stops logging on, messages--especially JCL >NOTIFYs--will accumulate indefinitely. In my experience, that's why >SYS1.BRODCAST fills up. > Why was this ever designed as a global repository rather than per-addressee? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
