Ze'ev, I work with a product that would prevent this type of thing from happening. JCL that does not meet site requirements would never make it into production. It can also optionally be prevented from being added to the production batch schedule, if so desired.
Regards, Mitch McCluhan, Legacy Modernization Consultant www.lcmg.us -----Original Message----- From: Ze'ev Atlas <zatl...@yahoo.com> To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Sent: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 8:39 am Subject: Re: JCL (was: Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers) Let me add another complains about JCL, it allows changing source code meaning n run time and sometimes this is hairy: //XXX DD DSN=.... / DCB=(LRECL=80,&R /... The above is legit although I would fire anybody who doed it. R could be esolved to: / EXEC YYY,R='BLKSIZE=8000)' or it could be resolved to an early example of cose injection of your choice ZA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
