Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> Be very careful doing that! When I was very young I tried something similar >> without understanding that the following GO step contained: >> //STEPLIB DD DISP=(OLD,DELETE),DSN=*.LKED.SYSLMOD >> Oops!
A common trap. RACF can help you to protect your dataset with access = UPDATE. This is why production loadlibs should not start with your userid. One of my users, an ancient and somewhat crazy lady has a bad habit to delete her datasets and then ringing up the director (instead just calling our direct boss) saying WE deleted her things. When the director's contract was ending, he/she just call the new director and warn him/her about that troublesome user. Eventually we have a daily batch job which run backups incrementally. ;-) Steve Comstock wrote: >Yeah, I did something similar once. State of New Mexico was down for two days. Two days! Ouch. You really make those New Mexicans very OLD!! ;-) >But the point is that the OP really needs to beef up his understanding of JCL >as well as his knowledge of COBOL if he is teaching for the z/OS environment. Agreed. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
