Tom, This particular DISPLAY is not really needed for the program to function, it's merely a leftover from the initial testing, but "yes", we do have such DISPLAYs in the batch jobs and I have never heard of any rules to limit its usage. We may run _thousands_ jobs at a time, so I guess we also have some smart auto-filtering which protects the consoles but still allows to see displays in the JES log.
-Victor- ------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 08:59:31 -0600, Victor Gil wrote: >If Cobol code is an acceptable option the below program should do what you >want. (snip) >003500 DISPLAY OUTPUT-FILE-RECORD UPON CONSOLE. Really? Do people still use DISPLAY ... UPON CONSOLE in 2016? Even in 1970 there were standards where I worked that didn't allow it except for very special cases that really required operator intervention. And we only had three regions on our MVT system. Today even a tiny shop typically has dozens of batch jobs running. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
