Nope, the comma is not the problem. I got it out of there with a quick change
that works so long as the object file name is short. Still sat for a minute
elapsed doing nothing on a nearly-idle z13s:
IEF236I ALLOC. FOR useridCC BPXARCH
IEF237I DMY ALLOCATED TO STDIN
IEF237I JES2 ALLOCATED TO STDOUT
IEF237I JES2 ALLOCATED TO STDERR
IEF142I useridCC BPXARCH - STEP WAS EXECUTED - COND CODE 0000
IEF285I userid.useridCC.JOB04942.D0000105.? SYSOUT
IEF285I userid.useridCC.JOB04942.D0000106.? SYSOUT
IEF373I STEP/BPXARCH /START 2018032.1836
IEF032I STEP/BPXARCH /STOP 2018032.1837
CPU: 0 HR 00 MIN 00.02 SEC SRB: 0 HR 00 MIN 00.00 SEC
VIRT: 164K SYS: 348K EXT: 16K SYS: 12084K
ATB- REAL: 0K SLOTS: 0K
VIRT- ALLOC: 14M SHRD: 0M
IEF375I JOB/useridCC/START 2018032.1836
IEF033I JOB/useridCC/STOP 2018032.1837
CPU: 0 HR 00 MIN 06.53 SEC SRB: 0 HR 00 MIN 00.16 SEC
Charles
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2018 3:07 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Why does BPXBATCH/ar go to sleep
On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 09:52:31 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>In answer to your other question, the two semicolons are accepted (required?)
>perhaps because MVS in its wisdom adds a comma in there.
>
Isn't that the comma that *you* typed?
On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 08:40:15 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>//BPXARCH EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,COND=(4,LT), // PARM=('SH cd
>&CSOURCE/Object;',
>// ';ar -rvc MyArchive.a #MEMBER#.o')
And doesn't stderr show a syntax error on the comma?
Circumventions:
o Use symbol substitution to avoid the need for continuation.
o Use PARMDD
o Use STDPARM
o Use a silly command substitution to devour the comma (Ugh!):
>//BPXARCH EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,COND=(4,LT), // PARM=('SH cd
>&CSOURCE/Object; $(: ',
>// '); ar -rvc MyArchive.a #MEMBER#.o')
-- gil
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