Here is the Announcement letter for what is I believe to be the last version release of the product and I hear you about the difficulty in ordering, I think it is still orderable, but I am not totally sure how anymore.
The product ID is 5655-D45, I do not think the ESL charge option is available anymore. http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&appname=Demonstration&htmlfid=897/ENUS200-093 Al Nims University of Florida -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 10:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Dataset PACK profile On 2014-12-30, at 15:54, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: > I am not going to respond about the ISPF PACK option, that has been answered > by posts already. > > I would like to add some information about the use of PIPEs in JCL and > otherwise. > > #1 There is a product that I think it can still be ordered but not really > supported anymore and I am not sure of the name, but one of it's features was > that it provided a TSO PIPE command. I think it was part of the product, > "BatchPipes for OS/390 Version 2 Release 1, the main function was to provide > the capability of multiple jobs running on different LPARs to provide data to > another job, via a "PIPE", but it also provided a TSO command, "PIPE" that > provided PIPE functions, in the same style as what is built into NETVIEW. > An example: PIPE > DDNAME=XYZ | CHANGE /abc/cba/ | > DDNAME=ZYX It is > not like UNIX PIPEs, but somewhat the same functionality. > > #2. I went to www.ibm.com and did a search on "mvs batchpipes" and among the > hits, was this article: "Two Kinds of PIPEs" > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/MartinPacker/entry/ > two_kinds_of_pipes5?lang=en > This is called, somewhat optimistically, by its partisans, "CMS/TSO Pipelines": http://vm.marist.edu/~pipeline/#BPW People have reported difficulties ordering the TSO flavor: some sales reps can't identify the product. The page cited provides a part number for the documentation but none for the product. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
