All, I am testing on an older z/OS 1.10 system. I have 1.13 system and a 2.1 system. I am going to try this on the other systems. Thought it was odd, been using IEFBR14 for years.
Regards, Scott On Monday, May 4, 2015, Bob Rutledge <[email protected]> wrote: > That bug is cited on page 6 of "Software Testing Techniques, Finding the > Defects that Matter", Loveland, Miller, Prewitt and Shannon (IBM System > Test, Poughkeepsie). > > Bob > > On 5/4/2015 2:47 PM, J O Skip Robinson wrote: > >> You might wonder what could go wrong in such a simple program. I never >> saw it, but heard tell that the earliest version of IEFBR14 went PE because >> it contained only one instruction: BR 14. That left the return code totally >> unpredictable, so a PTF was released to SR 15,15. Maybe an urban legend, >> but one too precious to debunk. >> >> . >> . >> . >> J.O.Skip Robinson >> Southern California Edison Company >> Electric Dragon Team Paddler >> SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager >> 626-302-7535 Office >> 323-715-0595 Mobile >> [email protected] >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick >> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 10:48 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: IEFBR14 question >> >> If the dataset already exists then it doesn't try to create it and you do >> not need the SPACE parm. But if it does not exist it first creats it, and >> then deletes it. So you need the SPACE parm. >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Scott Ford <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: >> Sent: Monday, May 4, 2015 9:10 AM >> Subject: Re: IEFBR14 question >> >> Peter, >> >> Thank you very much ...haven't seen the message before ... >> >> Regards, >> Scott >> >> On Monday, May 4, 2015, Farley, Peter x23353 <[email protected] >> > >> wrote: >> >> SPACE=(0,0) eliminates the message. I usually also use UNIT=SYSDA, >>> but YMMV. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected] >>> <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of Scott Ford >>> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 10:54 AM >>> To: [email protected] <javascript:;> >>> Subject: IEFBR14 question >>> >>> All, >>> >>> I just came across something I haven't seen. I am building some canned >>> JCL and I was testing a IEFBR14 step doing disp=(mod,delete,delete) on >>> non-existent datasets wanting to see the return code passed back and >>> saw this.... >>> >>> IGD17045I Space not specified for allocation of data set. >>> >>> This is non-SMS ... >>> >>> I am confused...guys and gals. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Scott >>> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
