> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Gilmore > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 4:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE > > Jack Schudel has made the crucial point. > > 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. > > All this is a little too easy, in my view anyway. The use of an > on-line table of jobnames and RC-value thresholds would be a better > approach. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
And that JOBRC facility may not fool everybody. I doubt it will fool CA-7's monitoring of return codes, which I think is via the IEFACTRT interface (or maybe something else, I don't really know). We have an archival program (CA-JMR) which outputs messages about the RC. But I am fairly sure it does it by looking at the lines it transcribes, looking for the IEF142I message. I say this because it reports an RC of 0 for all spun output which does not have any IEF142I messages in it. I think that JOBRC will fool SDSF's MAXRC. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
