Nice, reminds me back in ‘88 when I was assembling the COBOL default (IKFCBL00 IIRC) and the defaults weren’t taking. Looked for missing continuations, commas, … and finally opened a ticket. After getting to a developer he saw the missing continuation. Sometimes its not you; we all see what we expect to see most of the time. Glad you found it.
Matt Hogstrom PGP key 0F143BC1 > On Nov 10, 2021, at 09:47, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > > Yesterday I needed to run a quick test of a USS-resident program from batch, > which I certainly knew was possible but had never done before. Found various > pages talking about how to use BPXBATCH, tried it. RC=0 but no program > output. None. Zero. Nada. Tinkered with DDs for STDOUT and STDERR > (SYSOUT=*), no joy. Tried routing to DASD, no joy. Scratched head, gave up > for the day. > > > > Looked at it again this morning and saw the problem instantly. Now, as we > all know, there is no new JCL: every bit of JCL is descended from a fragment > found on a stone tablet on the side of a mountain near Poughkeepsie back in > the early 1960s. Every "new" job is just an old job, modified. > > > > And it happened that the job I'd taken as my template had TYPRUN=SCAN. > Wasn't even aware I had any such.! > > > > Presumably I won't make that mistake again.* > > > > ...phsiii > > > > *This week > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
