Oh, simply because the whole job is 160-something lines. One inserted '//' is a lot less risky than editing that many records, that's all.
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not now either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening towards active assistance, is simply bad. -CS Lewis (1898-1963) */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Friday, December 22, 2023 12:49 Ok, so how about the obvious response…… Since you are going to edit the JCL to add // or something, why not just comment out or delete the remaining JCL? -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Sri h Kolusu Sent: Friday, December 22, 2023 12:30 Your option works, however, there is another option to make jcl skip steps with enclosing the steps as data. For example, if you had 10 steps and you want only first 6 steps to run then simply add //SAVE DD DATA,DLM=## after step 5 and everything else below it will be ignored . It also will give the flexibility of skipping some steps in between and run later steps too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
