Methinks that perhaps Charlie's computer is caught in a time warp and resending his post from the 20th? Or possibly something more sinister is afoot.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Null in JCL causing ERROR Why do I get this strange feeling of déjà vu? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JONES, CHARLIE Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 9:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Null in JCL causing ERROR We are on z/OS 1.7 - We had a JCL error and determined that the cause was An x'00' (null) between a STEPNAME and its corresponding EXEC directive. We changed The null to a x'40' (space) and everything worked fine. The programmer that created the JCL Claims that the JCL with the embedded null worked okay under z/OS 1.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
