Sorry for the late append on this subject but I have been away for the last week.
In this shop we use an ESS (RACF) and take the view that the sole job of AUTOLOG1 is to start up the ESS - nothing else. In the way we work OPERATOR has code in it's profile to wait until either the ESS is available or a set amount of time since the system IPL has expired. All of the servers are started by AUTOLOG2 which is autologged by OPERATOR when it is happy that the time is right, (there are various checks to ensure that this is only done after an IPL and to allow AUTOLOG2 processing to be bypassed when this is what we want). Even though you may not have an ESS there is no reason why you could not take this approach with AUTOLOG1 setting some value (or switch) on which OPERATOR could work. Regards Colin Allinson Amadeus Data Processing
