Yes, it will submit starting from the next job card. Did it for a production worker wanting to just run the start.
On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 10:04 AM Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > I should know this - I've been using JCL for decades - but I find I'm > uncertain about something I haven't done in a while. I have a production > job here that will eventually be rewritten, but for now I'm just going to > tell it to execute only the first couple steps. I had in mind inserting > "//" before the part of the JCL that I want to skip. Very simple. > > But wait - does the JCL interpreter discard the rest of the job when it > sees that empty '//', or does it interpret the rest as the start of a new > job? (Since there's no subsequent JOB statement I'm not terribly worried > about it, but it's sloppy; maybe I should just use a COND parm on the JOB > card.) This info is probably in the JCL ref, but I don't immediately see > it. > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* "Poor Diogenes; if you knew how to get on with people you wouldn't have > to live like that." / "Poor Aristippos; if you knew how to live like this > you wouldn't have to get on with people." -a condensation of their > respective schools of thought a few centuries BC */ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
