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From: "Edward Jaffe" <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 3:14 PM
Subject: AMATERSE Even Less Device Independent Than Before
I know Paul Gilmartin will just love this...
With recent service applied, all of our jobs that UNPACK customer problem
documentation to SYSOUT are failing with:
AMA584E OUTPUT DEVICE TYPE IS UNSUPPORTED
The problem is easily demonstrated with this simple JCL:
//PACK EXEC PGM=TRSMAIN,PARM=PACK
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//INFILE DD DSN=SYS1.MACLIB(CVT),DISP=SHR
//OUTFILE DD DSN=&&TERSE,UNIT=SYSALLDA,DISP=(,PASS),SPACE=(CYL,(1,1))
//*
//UNPACK EXEC PGM=TRSMAIN,PARM=UNPACK
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//INFILE DD DSN=&&TERSE,DISP=(OLD,DELETE)
//OUTFILE DD SYSOUT=*
IBM describes the problem thusly...
+IBM -5752SC112 - 09/10/05-10:20-
Action taken: With UA48655 applied on the system, AMADECS+x'175E' calls
the DEVTYPE macro. Upon return, AMADECS checks the return code issued
from the SVC 24. When the output device is to SYSOUT=*, the return code
being set from the SVC 24, is non-zero. There are no additional checks
to see if the output device is SYSOUT=*.
Ed,
Did they give you the WAD here? Who does Service Aids at IBM? Should we
mailbomb John Eells? Just kidding, but this should be escalated.
Regards,
Tom Conley
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