People who are familiar with and knowledgeable about IEBEDIT make significant use of it. Others of course do not.
This difference is largely generational. When SYSGENs were still required their stage 2s, the job streams generated by the expansion of the system-defining stage 1 macro instructions, often failed (chiefly but not only because real DASD storage requirements had been underestimated). It was then necessary to restart this job stream, beginning typically with the failing job step (and altered DD statements for one or more data sets). In these circumstances one necessarily became very familiar with IEBEDIT, which was used to edit the stage 2 job stream to produce a recovery one. It remains a useful utility, and those who don't use it should study the few manual pages that describe it. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
