<< Beware of COND=ONLY to suppress execution. Decades ago, a
colleague did that, but a prior step ABENDed. Embarrassing
because it was my program. I've since used COND=(0,LE). >>
I've had terrible experiences using COND=ONLY and, to a lesser extent,
COND=EVEN. Always considered them the lazy way to handle exceptions (just my
opinion though) so I've avoided them if at all possible.
Stan
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:22 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: If Else JCL question
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:08:32 -0600, Robert Birdsall wrote:
>Similar to Gil's reply - skip if you've had enough...
> ...
>// IF (STEPA.RC = 4 AND STEPB.RC = 0 AND STEPC.RUN = FALSE AND
>// STEPD.RC = 8 AND STEPE.RUN = FALSE) OR
> ...
>
Is it permissible to omit the continuation mark in col. 72
as you appear to have done? I thought that was permitted
only if the continued line ended with a comma.
(I looked briefly, not thoroughly, for this in the IF...ELSE
chapter of the JCL RM.)
Beware of COND=ONLY to suppress execution. Decades ago, a
colleague did that, but a prior step ABENDed. Embarrassing
because it was my program. I've since used COND=(0,LE).
Still waiting for a followup in COND format from the person who
posed the challenge...
-- gil
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