>With the availability of the JOBRC= parameter on the JOB statement, any job, >however troubled, can have RC=0. One simply begins it with a step, call it >MISLEAD. that executed an innocuous program, a certain wrell known do-nothing >IBM utility will do, and specifies the stepname MISLEAD in the JOBRC= >parameter value.
Yes, one could do that; why would one do that, though? The purpose is to report on relevant errors. NOT to mislead, especially in Production. I assume the people in support wish to stay gainfully employed, and won't play those destructive games. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html