John, The commands entered in JCL have a space after the "//". It should be a continuation card or one of the few SET, INCLUDE,.. cards that doesn't need a "name" verb after the slashs. It should be simple to check of ot one of these cards, continuation card or a suspected command. In regard to the command name, I don't believe that the converteris aware of valid commands. Are you sure the command is not printed in syslog? Remember that the commands are executed in coversion time, not run time.
Itschak On 8/25/08, John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yet another question in my quest to create a JCL parser. > > I know of the // COMMAND 'command' JCL statement. But I also know that it > is possible to do something like: // VARY 200,ONLINE as well. Since I > don't want to actually parse every possible z/OS command in my JCL parser, > I am thinking of making a rule to "catch" all JCL statements which have an > "unknown" verb and consider them to be "possible z/OS commands". Does this > seem reasonable? Or should I simply give a SYNTAX ERROR type return and > say something to the effect: IF THIS IS A Z/OS COMMAND, USE THE "COMMAND" > VERB TO ISSUE THE COMMAND. ? > > I did notice that "something" seems to know that VARY and I guess the > other z/OS commands are valid, whereas something like // MOMMA will get a > JCL error. From my testing, I think that the converter "knows" all the > possible z/OS command verbs. That's because I used CA-OPS/MVS to create a > command rule called MOMMA. When embedded in JCL, the command does not get > executed and I get a JCL error. But I can enter the command via SDSF or a > console session. > > Again, many thanks. > > -- > Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? > A: An EIN stein. > > Maranatha! > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
