In <[email protected]>, on
10/10/2013
at 05:57 PM, "Peter X. DeFabritus" <[email protected]> said:
>I had this exact problem during the Early Support Program for z/OS
>2.1. I ran an IDCAMS step, where, after substitution, the IDCAMS
>control statement went past column 72. Here's the error I got:
>IDC3302I ACTION ERROR ON TECH008.TECH008Z.JOB01701.
> D0000101.?
> IDC3313I ** ,TECH008Z,DEFCL ,JES ,I,SYSIN ,
>
> GET ,WRONG LEN RECRD,**************,
That looks like exactly what I would want.
>I suggested either truncating the record to the proper LRECL, so at
>least the user would realize what's going on, or perhaps breaking it
>up into 2 records.
Either of which I would consider to be a serious design flaw. The I/O
error indication lets the user know what is going on; your suggestion
would conceal the error from him.
>I believe the current situation will lead to confusion and the
>wasting of a lot of folks' time.
Silently corrupting the users' data will waste a lot more time.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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