Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format On Thu, 9 May 2024 10:44:10 -0500, Steve Beaver wrote:
>TIME=1440 turns off the timing -- This depends on whether there is an >exit controlling the use of 1440 > I wonder why the designers didn't choose 9999, the largest possible 4-digit value, to mean "forever"? (OTHH, I get cognitive dissonance with products that use 0 to mean "unlimited".) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gil et al, So how did they come up with this one? From the JCL reference manual: minutes Specifies the maximum number of minutes the step can use the processor. Minutes must be a number from 0 through 357912 (248.55 days). 357912 minutes? My brain isn't coming up with a logical explanation for that number. Rex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
