On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 09:42:59 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:

>And the answer is
>
>//SYSOUT   DD  SYSOUT=*,LRECL=80,RECFM=FB
>
>Kind of pathetic if you ask me.
> 
A well-designed program will supply defaults for any such attributes
the programmer omits.

A mal-designed program (there are many, especialy Legacy) will override
values the programmer supplies, even modifying explicit attributes of
existing data sets.

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Charles Mills
>Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 9:00 AM
>
>... This is a job that was running successfully on another system ...
>
>//SYSOUT   DD  SYSOUT=*
>
Why?  Different compiler release?  Installation exit supplying defaults?  ...?

-- gil

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