On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:59:40 -0500, Steve Smith wrote:
>I'm not sure about JES2 interpreting a job number as negative. But the
>"convenient" wrap-around range feature did get an operator fired at my shop
>many years ago. He intended to purge 2 jobs: $PJ1234-1235, but prematurely
>hit enter after $PJ1234-123. Didn't make any noise until the supervisor &
>managers & users, etc. starting screaming. Eventually they determined that
>a head must roll.
>
I've always felt it safer to terminate a loop on inequality (">=") rather
than equality ("=="), particularly with a floating point control variable.
"convenient" be dammed!
-- gil
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