Hello John, late response due to weekend. :-)
My understanding is that application staff dont want to be called for FTP problem. And that application staff are getting called due to jobname prefix. You have indicated that existing jobs use a STEP to trigger the FTP request, and that you are using CA-7. My simplistic response would be to solve the problem by turning each FTP STEP into a new job. Use CA-7 to handle the COND code checking currently being done in the JCL STEP. Each "new" FTP job would have a new FTP team specific jobname. The applications staff can convert the FTP step into a FTP job reasonably quickly. Coordination between application / scheduler / FTP teams would be required for FTP jobname allocation. Result is that existing step jcl can be used, minimising testing and implementation times. no need for any other product, external or in-house. :-D Regards Bruce Hewson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
