Brendan Friel asks: > 1) Has it always been a farce ?
Yes. At least since 1974. > 2) Are there lots of other scenarios where it doesn't > work ? Yes. Several have been elucidated here, already. > 3) What is exactly is the root cause of this farcical > behavior ? The DISP=SH example should be easily > flagged as an error in any programming environment. This, too, has already been covered. TYPRUN=SCAN simply says (to JES): "Be a good boy here will you and run this JCL through the converter, OK?" That's it. That's _all_ it does. That's all it has _ever_ done. Nothing else. Accordingly, it is the case that only errors that _can_ be found by the converter _will_ be found. Errors that can be found _only_ by the interpreter will (obviously) _not_ be found (simply because the interpreter will not get involved). And, in addition to that, errors that can only be found by the initiator will also _not_ be found (simply because the initiator will _also_ not get involved). -- WB ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
