RS, I don't know if it's worth discussion either, but I've worked at two shops in Fort Worth Texas USA and both of them had a defined jobclass for IT staff to serialize submitted jobs. So, there's two. Wah-hoo!
Production jobs are defined to the job scheduler in both shops were I've worked. The OP said he had "a situation" and specifically said he did not want to use his automation product - that might indicate he was looking for a "one-time" process. Under those conditions, suggestions are going to be wide-ranging, and solutions dependent on his environment and how much control he has - for instance, is there already or can he modify an initiator to run a class that no other initiator runs and submit his jobs in that class? Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 4:39 PM Well, I'm not sure whether it is worth discussion (in other words: I don't want to put irrelevant stuff here), however Ed said "many". Obviously "many" has no strict definition, but surely it is more than 1. I have *never* seen such class, explicitly defined "for serialization". I can talk about most of the major systems in Poland, and a few in Europe and US. So, IMHO this is good reason to say "Really?". BTW: many shops simply use any batch scheduler. The rest don't do it for financial reasons. ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
