Re: Submit a series of jobs in order aft er the pre vious has completedâ

2011-05-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 04/20/2011 at 05:50 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: >I would expect your fingers would get tired before you could ever >punch so many cards. But perhaps you have the luxury of data entry >personnel to do that for you. FSVO luxury. I found that it took less of my time to punch my own cards t

Re: Submit a series of jobs in order aft er the pre vious has completedâ

2011-04-20 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
I wrote a REXX program that built the JCL. It was only when I submitted the 4,000 step backup job that I realised I had to embed a job card every 255 steps and then the conundrum of how to prevent multiple jobs from executing and where this whole started from jogged my memory. On Thu, Apr 21,

Re: Submit a series of jobs in order aft er the pre vious has completedâ

2011-04-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:54:11 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: >Isn't there a 255 step limit? I regularly hit this problem with >multi-step database backups/tape stacking type process. > I would expect your fingers would get tired before you could ever punch so many cards. But perhaps you have the l