Yep - I'm hoping they'll like the batch facilities in MVS which in my
opinion are far beyond unix. This might be a spot where a history
lesson is needed, but I wasn't around in the early days:
From what I've read, MVS started with nothing but batch jobs and later
grew into online systems. So TSO is just another batch job that happens
to communicate with a terminal. On the unix side though, it seems they
started with online terminals first, so a batch (background) job was
later created as a terminal session with no terminal.
cron tasks will be a problem I think, since a non-priviledged user can
setup their own private "autocommands" on unix. Not so on the
mainframe. But from what I've seen, unix people tend to want cron tasks
because they are polling for data, which needs to be discouraged. So if
someone asks about cron on the mainframe, I might side-track them and
ask what they need it for. If the answer is polling, maybe I can nip
that in the bud.
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Then imagine their astonishment when they ask:
"OK. I'm starting to get this JCL stuff. So how do I get two
or more processes to execute concurrently, like '&' does?"
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