OPCA/TWS LIstserver and/or opinions required

2008-07-30 Thread andy corpes
Hi Group, Does anyone know of a listserv group dedicated to OPCA? Meanwhile, i'll ask my question here for any OPCA users out there. My current client has decided to deal with conditional batch job processing by using OCL to change the workstation id's of certain operations. I.e the run a step

Re: SCLM in btch

2008-07-30 Thread andy corpes
Hi Hal What happens when you try to use the batch jobs? Does anything actually get submitted? are you able to build interactively under TSO? We use SCLM extensively for many different things, and we use the batch interface for all of our builds and promotions. We've also used rexx for language

Editing zOS load module with rexx code

2007-04-27 Thread andy corpes
Hi Group, I have encountered a method of using the zOS debugging tool that involves parsing and rewriting the object deck using rexx code. This is done to change the name of the listing dataset, which is written to the object deck when the test directive is issued. This feels a little wrong to

Re: Rational Clearcase question

2007-04-23 Thread andy corpes
Hi Timothy, Thanks very much for your reply, your questions make me lean towards keeping SCLM. My site is concerned about the long term value in doing this, which you also suggest will be ok. We are meeting with IBM this afternoon, however, we are still interested in speaking with anybody

Rational Clearcase question

2007-04-13 Thread andy corpes
Hi Group Our site is currently looking at replacing our mainframe source code management tool (SCLM) with rational clearcase. Can anyone on the list share any experience with rational clearcase used as a zOS source code managmen tool, in particular, for COBOL assmebler components, either to

Re: Region size for batch processing

2006-04-13 Thread andy corpes
Thanks for all of your responses,, we going to use a region size of 1024M for most of our batch,, the exception being the SAS which or sysprogs want us to leave running with 0M. I think we still may be at risk, but it's not my call. On 12/04/06, andy corpes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All

Region size for batch processing

2006-04-12 Thread andy corpes
Hi All, We are having discisisons regarding an optimal region size for our standard batch processing. Currently, we use region=0M for all of our batch jobs without any noticeable problems. Is this subparm useful anymore? it would appear that our system does not care too much, but i am concerned

Re: Possible problem with PDSE's

2005-09-09 Thread Andy Corpes
Thanks for all of your replies, very useful, i think i can now show to my employee i was not being too irresponsible by defining our 2000 + source/object/load/JCL libraries as PDSE's, some of you may remember, i asked similar questions 2-3 years ago, when i started this work. In the past two