In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/24/2007
   at 11:28 AM, Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Strange. ISTR using TSO under Release 18.6 of MVT. Communications
>were  via TCAM.

Well, communications was via TCAM.

>Wrong, oh how wrong! The Master Scheduler was the "boss" of
>allocation  and was invoked by running ANY job step, whether it was
>IEFBR14, IEFIIC,  or any user-written program or any IBM or third
>party program.

The Master Scheduler was involved in processing lengthy commands,
including START. It was not involved in processing batch jobs.

>Before SVC-99, we still had SVC-34, but the setup was somewhat more 
>complex and far less forgiving of errors.

The interface to SVC 34 was far simpler than that to SVC 99.

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