Everyone, There is a way to catch virtually 99.999% of all logic AND syntax errors prior to job submission. This would include a missing DD which is called by a COBOL FD statement in the program about to be executed.
Mitch McCluhan -----Original Message----- From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Jan 3, 2013 5:44 am Subject: Re: Syntax checker jes On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 06:01:29 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > on 01/02/2013 at 09:37 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said: >Only if that putative scanner did a far better detection of syntax >errors in JES2 parms than TYPRUN=SCAN does for JCL. EXPN? IRC, last time I tried TYPRUN=SCAN it didn't report something as gregiously wrong as DSN longer than 44 characters. Or perhaps t was more than 8 characters between dots. "That's not the type f error SCAN is supposed to report" is not a satisfactory rebuttal. I'm more inclined to use TYPRUN=HOLD and cancel the job (or ELEASE it if it's OK.) And others tell me that yet more syntax rrors are not detected until the job initiates. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
