We have a sequence of JES2 commands that run at 1600 every day to purge output more the 7 days old. For reasons almost lost in antiquity, the sequence avoided purging jobs/tasks that begin with S. When I first noticed several hundred jobs in the output queue (SDSF command O), I started looking for a pattern. I issued the PREFIX A* and saw a few but they were recent. I then issued PREFIX B* and dozens of jobs name SU00Y appeared. (If it matters, the prefix commands were entered in lower case. I capitalized them here for ease of reading.) I have never seen a response that didn't match the prefix before. This is on z/OS 1.11. Thoughts anyone?
PS - After finally recalling the reason for this, the fix to the command sequence is to add $PJQ(S*),JM!=SYSLOG,A>7 but I'm still curious why SDSF thought SU00Y matched prefix B*. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
