Inertia or not, it's a behaviour that many depend on. Changing may cause more havoc than you would like. ------Original Message------ From: Frank Swarbrick Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU ReplyTo: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Check whether job still running Sent: 1 May 2013 13:41
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 In development especially, unless we follow that what I deem to be a very silly and outdated standard of having your user ID as most of the jobname, having a job named, say, LISTCAT, would be very common.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 - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
