>> What is "might be unpredictable"? How is that different from "are >> unpredictable"?
> That just means that it's unpredictable whether it's unpredictable; I think we need an RCF to clarify whether it is unpredictable or not. Hey, it's Friday. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 1:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF? On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 12:32:10 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >"Note that if stepnames are >not unique within the job, such as when the same procedure is executed multiple >times, results might be unpredictable; but in most cases, references to >non-unique >stepnames will resolve to the first occurrence of that stepname." > >Does not give me a warm and fuzzy feeling. > Reminds me of the several contributors here who insist that "//DD:name" is safe for UNIX utilities documented only as supporting "//data.set.name" because that's how fopen() works. Even for utilities not documented as relying on fopen(). >What is "might be unpredictable"? How is that different from "are >unpredictable"? > That just means that it's unpredictable whether it's unpredictable; not guaranteed to be unpredictable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
