On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:31:38 -0500, Patrick Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


>What we found was in the STEPLIB statement, on the line where we had the
>SDFHLPA, the numbers that should be in columns 72-80 were pulled to the
>left, probably an oversight when the dataset name was changed.  The JCL is
>below.
>
>You would think it would have failed for a JCL error but it did not.
>

If you had non-blank data in col. 72 it should have been a JCL error.

Open a PMR with IBM.  I just tested this on z/OS 1.8 and got a JCL
error.  On z/OS 1.9 I didn't.  It does get a JCL error if the first 
library in the concatenation has data in col. 72, but not if other
libraries do.

Mark
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