On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 06:01:29 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > on 01/02/2013 at 09:37 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said: > >>Only if that putative scanner did a far better detection of syntax >>errors in JES2 parms than TYPRUN=SCAN does for JCL. > >EXPN? > IIRC, last time I tried TYPRUN=SCAN it didn't report something as egregiously wrong as DSN longer than 44 characters. Or perhaps it was more than 8 characters between dots. "That's not the type of error SCAN is supposed to report" is not a satisfactory rebuttal.
I'm more inclined to use TYPRUN=HOLD and cancel the job (or RELEASE it if it's OK.) And others tell me that yet more syntax errors are not detected until the job initiates. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
