On Thursday 20 August 2009, David Andrews wrote: > A member in SYS1.PROCLIB is started via operator command. When I insert > a JOB statement as the first record, the system executes the member as a > job (which allows me to use instream data, for example). > > This works well for plain old console START commands, but when I > internally issue a START command for the same member, and pass a program > token in the MGCR parameter list, then MVS 1.8 starts the member as a > plain old started task -- and then jobfails it for the "misplaced JOB > statement". > > I don't see this behavior documented in the JCL reference or the > Authorized Assembler Services Guide (not saying it isn't there, just > that I don't see it). Is this WAD? I tried what I think you describe on z/OS 1.9. Seems to work. Here's what I did. Tell me what's different from your test and I'll try that. Although, it doesn't show here, I tried it with a PTOKEN as well (just changed the flag). That worked also.
*---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+--- MODESET KEY=ZERO,MODE=SUP #xdchook , SR R0,R0 MGCR D_MGCRDATA MODESET KEY=NZERO,MODE=PROB * and the parameters: D_MGCRDATA EQU * DC X'80' DC AL1(D_MGCRDATA_L1) DC X'0000' DC C'S X1' D_MGCRDATA_L1 EQU *-D_MGCRDATA DC AL4(0) Ptoken DC CL80' security token ' UTOKEN D_MGCRDATA_L2 EQU *-D_MGCRDATA and the proc: //RGPX1 JOB ,R.G.PACE,NOTIFY=RGP00,MSGCLASS=H //STEP EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //SYSIN DD * JUNK JUNK // -- Regards, Richard Pace ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
