ETR - Since it hides the error message, seems to be a problem that is APARable.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 8:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: IBM-caused needless aggravation for today <rant> Many of the IBM-supplied storage definition macros and copy members have gained PRINT OFF statements over the years. As a result I had the infuriating situation of having an assembly that was generating an RC=8 but with no error messages in the listing. I was getting more and more frustrated and actually considered taking about 5 system macros and making private copies of them sans the PRINT OFF statements. I had the brighter idea of adding a SYSTERM DD statement and the error message there gave me enough of a clue as to what the problem was and I was able to correct it. Of course it was a user coding error, but then, most assembly errors are user coding errors. If users didn't make coding errors, the assembler wouldn't need any error messages. Meanwhile, an hour wasted on a stupid one-minute-fix coding error. But talk about a "feature" utterly designed to cause frustration - putting PRINT OFF statements in macros and copy members such that error messages disappear. I suppose the justification was obscuring non-GUPI code, but seeing as how it's all browsable in SYS1.MACLIB anyway that seems pretty silly. </rant> Perhaps someone else has a better justification or a better resolution? Charles Mills ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
