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 -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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