On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

Agreement. And I had best just leave it at that.


>
> >​Changing JCL requires copying from Production to test. Testing. Move to
> >MDOF. Test. Move to Production. This is known a "bureaucratic utopia".​
>
> -- gil
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