This is not meant to market the product, just to tell you what it does pertaining to this question.
Actually one of the functions (of hundreds of them) of our SyzCMD/z product is to do this type of thing. The started task (any started task) can execute a SyzCMD/z script that can start any number of tasks and keeps track of their execution. So, you could be in STC-A, start STC-B and STC-C, wait for STC-B to end and instantaneously start STC-D. Each of those other started tasks can start (or stop) any number of other tasks and wait for them to end (or just get to a specific step, or time of day or any of hundreds of other potential possibilities), and then do "something" about it, (start a task, stop some other task, pretty much anything that a "real" operator could do, with the added advantage that you can interrogate all of the other tasks in the system at any time for (almost) any of their attributes. Brian The SyzCMD/z product is at www.SyzygyInc.com/SyzCMDz.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
