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Hello - in response to Tyrone. According to our operations staff, they have a tough enough time keep batch cycle running on schedule. Allowing TSO mount has potential to add additional contention, and they would prefer to keep it the way it is. They may be willing to look at it if TSO mount was requested using the IDz application authority.
Hi - when running from the client the operation mode is similar to that of batch execution because the session is equivalent to a TSO batch invocation of File Manager. Running a compare or copy on a large file does not stop you viewing and doing other things within the File Manager plug-in - whilst that completes - therefore it can be treated as a background service already - and in effect is. The customer has raised this as a TSO mount authority issue which is required if we run under TSO and do the allocation of a tape data set and a reluctance to give that authority because of contention. The Copy function that allocates the tape data set will deallocate and subsequently release it on function completion. This would be the same as running a batch version of the copy. Can we find out more regarding why contention is an issue. Batch execution requires a framework change to acesss the output on job completion, and customization required for File Manager libraries etc as ISPF skeleton processing is not currently available for the eclipse client processing. It could be argued that the current mode is more useable to the eclipse user as results and return codes are available. So we need to find out why granting TSO mount authority is an issue and whether we can address those concerns.
Hi,
Doug's RFE refers specifically to the Copy Wizard. I would like to state that we feel that in general the 'Batch Execution' option is lacking in the IDZ File Manager plug-in.
Another good example is the 'Compare Wizard'. An online compare of data sets with millions of records and perhaps many thousands of differences is not practical.
The 'Batch Execution' option with JCL generation, which exists in the ISPF version of File Manager, is also necessary when the purpose is to generate JCL that will be included as a Step in a batch Job which will run on a regular basis in the Production environment.
Thanks,
Danny