On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 17:16:36 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 18:02:25 +0000, Frank Swarbrick ><frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote: > >>What was the first release that allowed BPXBATCH to (finally) write to >>SYSOUT? I wasn't >> aware of it, but indeed it does now work (z/OS 2.2)! > >z/OS 1.8 or z/OS 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 with the fix for APAR OA11699 allowed MVS >files (including SYSOUT) to be used for STDOUT / STDERR / STDPARM. > ITYM for STDPARM SYSIN, not SYSOUT.
And BPXBATCH STDIN is still required to be a UNIX file. AOPBATCH has no such restriction. Its understandable that BPXBATCH is not upgraded. IBM may have a business case for not making a base facility (BPXBATCH) compete with a separately-priced (I think) facility (AOPBATCH). ... BPXBATCH STDIN is still required to be a UNIX file. BPXWUNIX has no such restriction. (use the DD: form rather than the STEM. form.) It's wonderful! I've allocated stdin to a pipe and stdout and stderr to SYSOUT. Then with a long-running program feeding stdin I can "BOT &02" (tail) either stdout or stderr (alas, not both) with SDSF. Well done, BPXWUNIX! Less well SDSF. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
