I was and am under control on the $TA part and fully intend to use that.
It's not the whole solution, though. My question was "what can the $TA
schedule that will run a job" and these replies have provided the answer.
The answer is something like 

$T A,xxxx,86400,'$VS ''S RDR,DSN=MY.PDS(MYJOB)'' '

I may not have the syntax and all the quotes perfect, but that's the idea.

Charles


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Subject: Re: Is there a JES2 command to submit a job?

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, at 00:19, Charles Mills wrote:
> Right! I remember that. I remember that was how you ran anything. You 
> started a real reader: it fired up the 2540 and read in the job. And 
> then you did a S WTR (?) to print the output. OS/360 on a 360/40.

But the S RDR... command doesn't start a real reader.  It's just starting a
started task.   The previous reply talking about $TA etc was for faking a

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