As someone who rarely uses BPXBATCH, and doesn't have an alternate program, I'm curious as to some of the major issues with BPXBATCH.
Actually, I am curious to the need of BPXBATCH altogether. I ponder, occasionally, if JCL could be changed somehow to support a kind of EXEC statement that would allow for a lower case parameter that would be the name of, or path to, a USS program. But I don't have any idea what other requirements these "batch" programs fulfill. ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Kirk Wolf <k...@wolf-associates.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 10:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Re: multi-line STDPARM shell script for BPXBATCH On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 12:27 AM David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have used COZBATCH for years but recently had a requirement to be able > to ship something similar so we could install a web application from a > PAX member using a batch job. > I wrote my own batch shell utility using a tip from Kirk Wolf. It was > very simple to implement, another reason why it's so disappointing that > BPXBATCH is so wretched. > > Anyway, we already had this conversation 10 years ago and it's not worth > dragging it up again. > > FWIW, it was much longer than that! We originally released COZBATCH in 2007 as a free download (at that time named "DTLSPAWN"). We wrote it in a day after utter frustration with how much list traffic was posted *for years* on BPXBATCH issues. The mvs-oe list was almost completely dedicated to it. It has been enhanced with lots of little creature comforts over the years, but it is still about 1000 lines of code. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://dovetail.com/docs/cozbatch/intro.html#intro_features https://dovetail.com/support.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
