Chase, John wrote:
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:53:12 -0500, Chase, John wrote:
Hi, All,
I can't remember what the //SYSABOUT DD statement was for (doing a
little "cleanup" here). Didn't it have something to do with OS/VS
COBOL? Or was it "long-ago" MVS-specific?
We seem to have more than a few of them......
I found a reference to it in "VS COBOL II: Application Programming
Guide for MVS and CMS".
Ah! I missed it by a whole version. Still obsolete in our LE/COBOL
environment, though.
Thanks.
-jc-
If you have JCL occurrences of SYSABOUT, you may also have occurrences
of SYSDBOUT. Both were COBOL-required DD names for pre-LE COBOL runtime
environment and obsolete under LE as things that went to these datasets
go to CEEDUMP and SYSOUT under LE.
The LE runtime will dynamically allocate the DDs it requires if needed,
but if you want better control over the output queue properties for
exceptional diagnostic output you may want to be sure the LE
counterparts are defined in JCL for COBOL execution steps when you
delete the obsolete DDs. For example, we do long-term archival of job
logs and typical job-step output, and that may be the default OUTPUT
statement attributes. Default long-term archival of a 100,000 line
diagnostic dump from a job-step failure would rarely be appropriate!
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Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, AR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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