On Apr 22, 2015, at 2:10 PM, John McKown wrote:
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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.
Changing JCL requires copying from Production to test. Testing.
Move to
MDOF. Test. Move to Production. This is known a "bureaucratic
utopia".
Maybe true however when the programmer leaves and they will, its a
new round of discovery and in all likelyhood the so called delay will
cause production to be late and that might motivate management to
give the change a priority.
Ed
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