Thanks, Suresh. Turned out that my "foreign" job card was missing the word JOB. :) doh.
Anyway, I had a funny feeling it could be syntax related, which is why I asked this as a generic question. In some shops the job name must be the 7 character TSO user id plus one character, and if the job is submitted with only the TSO user id then that prompt happens and when a letter is entered the job runs. Is it the IEFUTL where that is configured? Kind regards, Lindy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of suresh chacko Sent: keskiviikko 28. kesäkuuta 2017 12.52 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sources of message: IKJ56700A ENTER JOBNAME CHARACTER(S) - EXTERNAL Dear Lindy Edit the job in 3.4 and the PROFILE. If PACK is ON, set it OFF with PACK OFF command and resubmit the job and see it resolves the issue. Thanks, Suresh Chacko On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfi...@sas.com> wrote: > Hello. > > Can someone tell me what triggers this message/prompt? > > IKJ56700A ENTER JOBNAME CHARACTER(S) - > > One source I know of is when I try to submit something that isn't JCL. > But it also happens in weird ways (on different machines) for 'normal' JCL. > > For example, I have a job card that looks similar to this: > > //Y123A JOB TPX,'RUN JOB', > // CLASS=T,MSGCLASS=U,NOTIFY=&SYSUID > > Doesn't matter what I put in there for job name, even filling it out > to 8 characters, I still get prompted. And something that I've never > seen before right after JOB. Usually it's the accounting info in > parenthesis like this: > > //MYJOBA JOB (TPX),'RUN MYJOB', CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=R,NOTIFY=ME > > That alone should tell me something, but not sure. > > At some shops I've noticed that the Job name has to be the 7 character > TSO user id plus one character, and if not I'd get that prompt, and if > I entered a letter it would run. > > I'm thinking a system exit, perhaps IEFUSI, may be one source. What > else could this be? I'd like to understand it better before bugging > the very busy sysprog. > > Kind regards, > Lindy > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- *SureshNc* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
