The safe way to handle that is to have automation rules that prevent or delay the start during test windows.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Tom Brennan [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2020 1:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Started task stopping immediately. No error messages. I used to type JCLERROR or similar at the top of a proc I didn't want started. Like Steve said, this was typically because I was doing some work on the task in the middle of the night and I didn't want another sysprog (or more likely automation) starting it up until I was done. Auditors were sleeping soundly. On 7/25/2020 6:22 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Your management tolerates that? The auditors didn't red flag it? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of > Steve Horein [[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 6:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Started task stopping immediately. No error messages. > > This. As an automation guy, I've encountered support folks changing > PGM=<legit thing> to PGM=IEFBR14 to keep <legit thing> from executing while > maintenance is being done, or when they're drafting the change task to > retire it. And who do you think the Operations staff calls when they can't > get the task to keep running? Three guesses... > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 3:28 PM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A started proc is just JCL that executes some program. Any program *might* >> behave as you describe. IEFBR14 would behave as you describe. People would >> probably need more specifics to be able to help. >> >> Charles >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Skippy the Ancient >> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 12:48 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Started task stopping immediately. No error messages. >> >> Has anyone seeing a started task immediately after you start it? No ACF2 >> messages. No error codes. >> Nothing. >> >> Help? >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send 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 >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send 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
