We use CBTTAPE.org's File 019's COMMAND program for both start up and shutdown. COMMAND can respond to outstanding replies, test to see if a task is up or down and several more, it a very simple system.
Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 UFIT University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: TSSO vs. System REXX for a "new user who is poor". I don't really know if that is a good subject line or not. And it, for once, does not apply to my company, we use CA-OPS/MVS and like it. There is an MPFLST program out there, MPF2REXX, which can be used with the MPFLST (natch!) to run System REXX for automation purposes. There is also the venerable TSSO system which can be used for this (and maybe more?). Now, "venerable" is a _good_ word. I gather that TSSO has a number of users. It has been around for a fairly long time, and has kept up with the newer releases of z/OS. So it is most likely well debugged. On the other hand, it has some "crufty" code. One example is a "hard coded" allocation of SYS1.PARMLIB for its configuration member (TSSOPARM). Now, when a friend of mine told me about this latter, I decided that it might be "fun" to see if I could fix it. I am working on that, using IEFPRMLB. While doing the above, I did notice the aforementioned venerable, but crufty, code. So I got to wondering if it would be worth the time and effort to "spruce up" TSSO's internals. This means having it basically do the same thing, externally, but with (what I consider) more current internals. An example would be for the TSSO initialization to dynamically add it's subsystem if it were not in the IEFSSNnn member at IPL time. I would also, due to OCD, would likely convert code like " L R1,0(R2) " to " L R1,0(,R2)" I.e. move the register from the index register position to the base register position. "Just because". Or would it basically just be a waste of time in which I could be doing "other important work". Such as napping. Just curious about people's opinions. -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
