Intriguing! Edit the JCL in hex, look for oddities in column 72. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Strange JCL error
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 05:56:41 -0700, Steve Comstock <[email protected]> wrote: >A more likely cause has surfaced: at Mark's suggestion I took a look a >the allocation attributes of the SPFTEMP0.CNTL data set, and it had >LRECL or 80 and BLKSIZE of 800. Now you may recall that one of the >symptoms was SDSF only showed my input as 10 lines of JCL. It's >possible that only one block was being read in, then maybe an I/O error >(bad block) kept the rest of the JCL out and that one block was passed >to the Converter. > >Hard to be sure, and we're running under z/VM so there's several layers >of code here. > >Since the problem has gone away, I'm moving on. > You may want to update your ISPF configuration table with values similar to these: ISPCTL0_BLOCK_SIZE = 27920 ISPCTL0_PRIMARY_QUANTITY = 30 ISPCTL0_SECONDARY_QUANTITY = 300 -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
