Sometimes I wonder if IBM took the 'blue pill or the red pill'...from the Matrix...lol
Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com ________________________________ From: "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:11 PM Subject: Re: Authorized functions TSO is archaic and was, IMO, not "well designed". Well, it possibly was back in MVT days. But it has not advanced with the times along with the rest of z/OS. And it depends on why you want to use TSO in a batch program. I would guess it is just so that you don't have to re-invent the wheel. Depending on what you want to do, you could possible use BPXWUNIX to invoke a UNIX REXX program which did an ADDRESS TSO to run the APF authorized TSO command. This will work. I do it myself at times. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . john.mck...@healthmarkets.com . www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Ford > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:34 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Authorized functions > > Tony, > > I dont want to knock IBM but for us developers this is UGLY ... > Maybe the problem is they never intended for it to be called > that way ... > > FWIW,, > > Regards, > > Scott J Ford > Software Engineer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
