On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:59:52 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote:
>
>This is a hot button of mine: going to extraordinary lengths to second guess
>SMPE. Like Santa Claus, SMPE knows who's been naughty and who's been nice.
>Goodies and lumps of coal will be distributed accordingly. GROUPEXTEND is
>*always* in order. There's nothing wrong with RC 8. Resolvable hold chains
>will be applied; unresolvable ones will be not. It's an utter waste of time
>to build an exclude list just to achieve RC 0. That ploy is decades obsolete
>and achieves nothing that SMPE won't deliver for free.
>
Is there a "Boy Who Cried 'Wolf!'" phenomenon?  You do APPLY CHECK and get RC=8.
You investigate the causes and decide they're all OK.  So you APPLY for real 
and tolerate
the RC=8 because the CHECK was OK.  But this time there's  a utility failure.

I suppose you need to inspect the reports from APPLY as thoroughly as those from
APPLY CHECK.  Whittling down the APPLY CHECK to RC=0 improves the S/N ratio
for APPLY.  Hasn't there been a recent enhancement so BYPASS can get RC=0?

-- gil

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