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There are many challenges and obstacles involved in delivering this request, but perhaps the most obvious one is that when a job is placed on a JOBQ, it is not merely recording the SBMJOB command, it actually allocates a job structure, which defines it as a "job" even though it is not active or running yet. And Jobs are not objects that can be moved from one system to another. It would take a tremendous amount of work to re-architect the concept of a job and its internal structures.
The other thing that would make this very difficult is that the two (or more?) systems would need to be nearly identical in terms of all the supporting objects that can be defined on the submit, such as job description, user profile, output queue, print device, routing entries, library list, ASP group, not to mention any application level objects required to run, such as programs, files, or other objects which would be expected to run the command or program successfully.
The thought of trying to create objects that span partitions blows the top of my head off and likely any IBM developer as well. It would be Herculean to change the architecture to support this. Managing tape drives is easy enough as long as they are owned by a host partition. If you have multiple partitions then you certainly have an HMC and it is easy to create a host partition. Simply vary the tape drive off on one partition and vary it on on another partition. The vary commands can be imbedded in CL and possibly executed remotely if needed.
Tom Duncan
CAAC member