On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:54:09 +0000, Martin Packer wrote: > >Between steps can't be pipes, can be VIO. Between jobs can be pipes, can't >be VIO. > Pipes could work between steps if the PIPE SUBSYS has an implied ELASTIC stage. But that's just reinventing VIO. PIPE SUBSYS must do some buffering to handle BSAM RECFM=VB. Or does it require that RECFM and BLKSIZE or the producer and consumer be identical?
>That second sentence depends on the ability to schedule two jobs (possibly >originally steps of the same job) alongside each other. > Alas, the Initiator won't do the latter for you. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
