-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Bad JOB card through NJE
On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Thompson, Steve wrote: > How many of you have had to chase down some JOB that had a bad parm on > it, but the submitting system was not the detecting system, even > though both are JES2 systems? > > Is it time for IBM to sync JCL processing again? Do we still need this > because one system is running MVS/SP1 and another is running z/OS 1.3? > > Just a general interest question because only certain items of a JOB > card are inspected on the "sending" system, requiring the receiving > system to do the full syntax checking. As a result, it is possible to > have an illegal (non-supported by ANY system) keyword (thanks to > fingercheck or mental hiccup) get passed to another system and it > fails the JOB with no real messages to make it obvious why. > > Wanna have fun? Put USERID as a keyword and do NJE to another node. > > Regards, > Steve Thompson > Steve: Has something changed? <SNIP> We seem to have a problem with RACF in this case. The JOB gets to the receiving node and gets a syntax error. However, my point is, the JOB card was invalid to start, it and the rest of the JOB should never have been shipped. If you want blind ship then use /*XMIT not /*XEQ Regards, Steve Thompson -- All opinions expressed by me are my own and may not necessarily reflect those of my employer. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
