On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:46:31 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >Personally, if I want to do this sort of thing, I use Co:Z from Dovetailed >Technologies to run under z/OS UNIX using its piping. It is possible to run >normal batch work via a UNIX shell. It is just a bit more difficulty to >allocate the datasets properly. > FSVO "possible ... normal". I find it impractical to deal with multi-file tapes, such as SMP/E RELFILE except in legacy batch. DYNALLOC lacks any analogue of RETAIN or of VOL=REF, so I must remount the tape before opening every data set.
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