I'm glad you solved your problem. However, I have submitted jobs with continued JOB cards and /*EOF using both transient data and the SPOOL interface with out problem.
Craig -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Yuhas Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JOB card error - it has me stumped. Problem solved. A colleague discovered that at the end of the jobstream was a '/*EOF' statement. When this was removed from the jobstream, the JOB card was recognized and executed as planned. In the Assembler Services Guide concerning the Internal Reader, the /*EOF statement causes the jobstream to be immediately sent to JES2 input services. The example for multiple jobstreams used only 1 record for the JOB card. In the example, every JCL statement was contained on one record. This leads me to believe that such a jobstream submitted via the internal reader cannot have statement overflowing to a second record. In this case, the JOB card was contained on 2 records. The continuation was not allowed. This in turn resulted in the ILLEGAL JOB card. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html