> we all see what we expect to see \That;s one of the reasons for code and design reviews.
another is that explaining code to someone else seems to use different mental pathways than proofreading it. I've lost count of how many times I've spotted bad code asking someone else to look at it and explaining it to them :-( -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Matt Hogstrom [m...@hogstrom.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 12:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Moron of the day -- me! 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
