On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 22:13:38 +0000, Neale Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote:
>Is there a way to stop CA Dispatch from ignoring/overwriting USERDATA created
>by this sequence?
>
>//REPORT1 OUTPUT WRITER=REPORT_NAME,DEST=RPI2,
>// USERDATA=(&DATE1,&TIME1)
>//SYSUT2 DD SYSOUT=(K),OUTPUT=*.REPORT1
>
>Where &DATA1/&TIME1 are set earlier in the job stream. The user data is
>getting replaced with:
>
>"OUTPUT_TEXT_BLOCK" : {
> "USERDATA" : [
> "ID=<REPORT01> JOBNAME=XXXA039G JOBID=JOB00763",
> "AMDY=06162025 ATIME=184325 DESC=<REPORT01 TO XXX >",
> " SOURCE=06 COMMENT=<XXX >",
> " TYPE=TEXT"
> ]
>}
>
>Neale
>
Have you contacted Broadcom to ask them? I have supported that product and
still do in
one environment, but I never realized it was using USERDATA. So you may be SOL,
but unless you are running the software with no support or illegally,
Broadcom's support
portal should be where you ask this question.
Regards,
Mark
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