On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:40:44 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:19:45 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:12:31 -0600, Paul Gilmartin  wrote:
>>
>>>Is there a way, in APPLY CHECK GROUP, to see a list of
>>>the SYSMODs that will be selected via GROUPEXTEND or
>>>GROUP when the actual APPLY is performed?
>>
>>Why should there be?  GROUPEXTEND implies extra checks and overhead
>>SMP/E will go through automatically so you don't have to.   Maybe not 
>>much difference on a small CSI (probably what you are used to
>>dealing with), but in older less efficient SMP/E versions and slower
>>processors,  and going against a large z/OS CSI, it could add quite a bit
>>of CPU and wall clock time. 
>> 
>I was assuming that APPLY CHECK GROUPEXTEND SELECT( ... )
>validates that all the HOLDs and REQs can be resolved, recursively.
>(And that inline JCLIN will be verified).  Am I wrong?  

<snip>

What you wrote / requested was that APPLY CHECK GROUP somehow
reported what would happen if you did GROUPEXTEND.  See your
first paragraph quoted above.    Did you mean that or did you
mean to ask about GROUPEXTEND to begin with?   

Mark
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