On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Edward Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Aug 30, 2016, at 10:40 AM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > > >> Why do you want to do this? > > > > The JCL for a zillion jobs is essentially fixed and unchangeable without > disrupting other things. > > > > Charles > > Charles, > > A long time ago I had a problem like this, JES2 (and or the C/I) changed > the rules for DLM. > There was no mention of it in the hold doc or the ptf cover letters. > Production was at a stand still and I would either have to back out a PDO > or come up with a quick solution. > We had FILEAID (luckily) and it let me do global changes to proclib and a > icl library that production was run out of. > I fired up a what if scenario and looked at the changes it proposed and I > didn’t like them so I tried a different scenario and that was what I needed. > I didn’t even ask I just did it and it worked exactly like I wanted and > production was up and running in a matter of minutes. > A Vice president who had been pacing out side the office asked me if I > wanted to back out and I said no need Production is running. > He gave me a strange look and saw jobs running to completion and he was > happy. > It saved my bacon. I think I would have been fired if I had to back out. > I had a stern talk with the technical support person for using DLM the way > he did. I told him from now use the KISS methodology when it comes to JECL > and JCL. > IOW mass changes can be done if thought through carefully. > > Ed > > Interesting. I have a friend who did essentially the same thing. With his boss watching. He got fired the next day for modifying production JCL without an approved change control request. -- Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
