Yep z/VM was great with PIPES, Unix is the same ...z/OS should get with the program and do the same ..Rexx you can outtrap , etc , but not like PIPES.. Scott J Ford
________________________________ From: Cris Hernandez #9 <hernandez...@yahoo.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 8:09:55 PM Subject: Re: BatchPipes/MVS If you have seriously large quantities of data to process in a short amount of time, it works wonders. used it back when it was new, had 5 jobs reading multi tape volumes feeding the rest of the 20 batch jobs running various sorts & appl programs. works great when all goes well, a real bear when one the jobs fails and you have to restart it all. --- On Sun, 6/12/11, Cheryl Watson <cwwalke...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Cheryl Watson <cwwalke...@gmail.com> > Subject: BatchPipes/MVS > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Date: Sunday, June 12, 2011, 3:25 PM > Is anyone using this product? Is it > worth the price (somewhere between $300- > $2000/month)? Would you use it if it came as part of z/OS? > > I've searched the IBM-Main archives and found one question > in each of the last > four years, but I found that IBM documentation is missing > in action. I'm thinking > of creating a SHARE requirement that asks IBM to do > something with it, but > that's ineffective if nobody uses it. > > For the most current documentation, see the Redbook, Batch > Modernization on > z/OS, http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247779.html?Open > (SG24- > 7779). This boasts our friend, Martin Packer, as one of the > authors. > > Thanks, > Cheryl > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
