> On Aug 30, 2016, at 10:40 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why do you want to do this? > > The JCL for a zillion jobs is essentially fixed and unchangeable without > disrupting other things. > > Charles
Charles, A long time ago I had a problem like this, JES2 (and or the C/I) changed the rules for DLM. There was no mention of it in the hold doc or the ptf cover letters. Production was at a stand still and I would either have to back out a PDO or come up with a quick solution. We had FILEAID (luckily) and it let me do global changes to proclib and a icl library that production was run out of. I fired up a what if scenario and looked at the changes it proposed and I didn’t like them so I tried a different scenario and that was what I needed. I didn’t even ask I just did it and it worked exactly like I wanted and production was up and running in a matter of minutes. A Vice president who had been pacing out side the office asked me if I wanted to back out and I said no need Production is running. He gave me a strange look and saw jobs running to completion and he was happy. It saved my bacon. I think I would have been fired if I had to back out. I had a stern talk with the technical support person for using DLM the way he did. I told him from now use the KISS methodology when it comes to JECL and JCL. IOW mass changes can be done if thought through carefully. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
