No, as the OP said, the numbers that were displaced were on the DD card:
// DD DISP=SHR,DSN=CICSTS32.CICS.SDFHLPA ... 00200000
They became a comment on that card. Since they overlaid column 72,
the next DD card was treated as a continuation.
> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:09:42 -0600
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: STC JCL Question
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
>
> The numbers in the original post are not in the "comments field" of a
> regular JCL statement. The numbers are on a comment card that began with
> //*.
> The book says
> Do not continue a comment statement using continuation conventions.
> Instead, code additional comment statements.
>
> The book also says:
> The following are JCL statements that you cannot continue. While you
> cannot continue these statements, you can code as many separate statements
> as you need.
> JCL Command statement
> Comment statement
> Delimiter statement
> Null statement
>
> --Roger
>
>
>
>
> Patrick Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> 09/26/2008 10:31 AM
> Please respond to
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> To
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> cc
>
> Subject
> STC JCL Question
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Greetings List - We just came across an issue that I would like to address
> with
> the group to determine why this happened.
>
> In testing of going to release 3.2 of CICS we had an issue with only one
> of the
> regions having a S0C4 abend in the TMON program at PLT startup. This did
> not happen in any of the other regions, just a particular one.
>
> What we found was in the STEPLIB statement, on the line where we had the
> SDFHLPA, the numbers that should be in columns 72-80 were pulled to the
> left, probably an oversight when the dataset name was changed. The JCL is
>
> below.
>
> You would think it would have failed for a JCL error but it did not.
>
> But it brings to question what happens in this case? Did it invailidate
> that line
> and not use it?
>
> Inquiring minds want to know.
>
> Thanks to anyone who knows what happened in this case.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick Lyon
>
> Snip of the STEPLIB is below. Probably will not format correctly but it
> is worth
> a shot:
> //* CICS STEPLIB - CONTAINS MODULES LOADED BY SUPERVISOR
> SERVICES 00110009
> //* 00110010
> //STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=CEE.SCEERUN
> // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=TCPIP.SEZALINK
> //* DD DISP=SHR,DSN=PRD1.CICSTS32.LINKLIB.KH
> // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=CICSTS32.CICS.SDFHAUTH
> // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=CICSTS32.CICS.SDFHLPA
> 00200000
> // DD
> DISP=SHR,DSN=PROD1.TMON.CICS32.TCELOAD
> // DD
> DISP=SHR,DSN=PROD1.TMON.LMSS0204.LMKLOAD
> // DD
> DISP=SHR,DSN=PROD1.TMON.LMSS0204.LMKRLOD
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