Ya know, I remember hearing "There's an old version of Pipelines hiding in that BatchPipes" back in the day. This suggests that you're both sort of right (René "more righter"): it was there but not obvious, and thus is perhaps not a good example of folks using/opting not to use Pipes.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of rvjan...@xs4all.nl Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 7:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Pipelines = you don't understand z/OS I think you remember wrong here. The full set of stages and sinks was there; it was a kind of pipes+, CMS compatible. I had it for the pipes and never even tried the jcl-batch stuff. I’ll try to scan the book and put it up somewhere. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN