There is no such requirement. Perhaps you're thinking of the serialization of jobs with the same name.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 10:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rexx console question On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 04:31:03 -0500, Tony Thigpen wrote: >I am using CONSOLE ACTIVATE in batch jobs to issue messages to the operator. > >Most of the time, it works flawlessly, but if two jobs are running at >the same time, one of the jobs receives an error on the ACTIVATE ane the >message is never issued. > >I am using running the rexx using IKJEFT01. Both jobs are under the same >userid. > Is this a consequence of IKJEFT01's enforcing TSO's antediluvian requirement that no user ID have multiple concurrent jobs? TSO oughta fix that, even as it finally fixed the 7-character userid restriction. Use TSUnnnnn, not user ID to identify a session. Can you try writing to /dev/console? I've done it regularly. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
