If I, like you, were starting from scratch, I would likely turn the option on. In our specific case, I am unlikely to change to allow duplicate jobnames to run because: 1. We have no demand for it. 2. It would need to be tested and announced. 3. There may be something (or several things) implicitly or explicitly dependent on the old behavior that I am unaware of or have forgotten.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 10:41 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Check whether job still running > > Why are people so insistent that having two same named jobs running at > the same time would cause such havoc? Do people really often have two > jobs with the same name that do different things submitted at the same > time with the intention that they need to run sequentially and not > simultaneously? > > This has been a peeve of mine since we moved from VSE to z/OS. In > development especially, unless we follow that what I deem to be a very > silly and outdated standard of having your user ID as most of the > jobname, having a job named, say, LISTCAT, would be very common. And > why shouldn't two jobs name LISTCAT be able to run simultaneously? > > Even though we are a new z/OS shop, we have "old" z/OS (MVS) sysprogs > who insist that we shouldn't activate the option to allow like-named > jobs to run at the same time. I just think its nonsense; its just > inertia. > > > > >________________________________ > > From: Ed Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> > >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > >Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 9:43 AM > >Subject: Re: Check whether job still running > > > > > >On 5/1/2013 8:24 AM, Ed Gould wrote: > >> I am somewhat surprised that you indicate that duplicate jobnames > are > >> to be allowed. I have worked in a few shops that job naming stand is > >> frozen and it would wreek havoc if a duplicate jobname were to be > >> allowed running at the same time. > > > >Not sure what to say. This long-standing customer requirement was > >implemented in JES2 over six years ago. > > > >-- > >Edward E Jaffe > >Phoenix Software International, Inc > >831 Parkview Drive North > >El Segundo, CA 90245 > >http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > >email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
