On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:10:30 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >Total agreement. But I understand why. We have an occasional S0C7 due to >the end user uploading bad data. My solution was to change a SORT control >card in a stand alone SORT step. After over a month, this change is still >pending research and approval. It is actually _easier_ for the programmer >to allow the abend, then edit the uploaded file (deleting records), and >rerun the job than to get the fix put in. It is a single control card >change. > But aren't you committing a Process violation by altering data outside a controlled process? I suppose you can call it an emergency response. But that shouldn't become routine.
>Changing JCL requires copying from Production to test. Testing. Move to >MDOF. Test. Move to Production. This is known a "bureaucratic utopia". -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
