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I've seen this done in many ways at different companies:<br />
o Purchase a Unix/Mainframe gateway product that does this. I think Tivoli, for example, has a module that does this.<br />
o Drop JCL to a specific directory on the mainframe and have a job on the mainframe that checks that directory every few minutes and runs anything it finds there<br />
o Use IBM Message Queue (MQ) and write a queue-handler that does this
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I've seen this done in many ways at different companies:
o Purchase a Unix/Mainframe gateway product that does this. I think Tivoli, for example, has a module that does this.
o Drop JCL to a specific directory on the mainframe and have a job on the mainframe that checks that directory every few minutes and runs anything it finds there
o Use IBM Message Queue (MQ) and write a queue-handler that does this

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That's it, hweber; it had been awhile, but yes, that's how I used to do it.
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That's it, hweber; it had been awhile, but yes, that's how I used to do it.

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I am looking for a way to submit jobs from my UNIX system and execute them on an OS/390 Mainframe. &nbsp;Anyone have any ideas?
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I am looking for a way to submit jobs from my UNIX system and execute them on an OS/390 Mainframe.  Anyone have any ideas?

Using UNIX to submit a Mainframe Job

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