On 10 July 2014 21:38, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: > on 07/09/2014 at 03:27 AM, Barry Merrill <ba...@mxg.com> said: > >>While I clearly didn't recollect the correct command names, I do >>remember specifically that when one of the commands that used TPUT >>was encountered in the list of commands in my benchmark batch job, >>none of the subsequent commands in the input DD (SYSTSIN??) were >>executed, so I would delete that command and rerun until I had a list >>of commands that did execute in TSO in batch. > > My guess is that the command also did TGET.
TGET in batch returns RC=0, with a zero-length line, which some programs will treat as an end of file. But this strange design decision of long ago causes severe problems when a program treats it instead as the key to re-issue the TGET. In one situation I found it necessary to install an SVC Screening routine to change the RC=0 to RC=8 ("user hit attention") to avoid the loop. (Of course the program issuing the TGET wasn't mine.) Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN