Isn't there a 255 step limit? I regularly hit this problem with multi-step database backups/tape stacking type process.
2011/4/21 john gilmore <[email protected]>: > In reading the various posts in this thread it has occurred to me that the > distinction between a job and a job step, always arbitrary, is particularly > infelicitous here. > > Make each all of these jobs a step in a framing job; and JCL will then > provide 1) unambigouus linear ordering of these steps and 2) all of the other > control mechanisms you need (conditional truncation of the jobstep stream, > alternative, condition-code driven execution of step k instead of step j > following step i, conditional suppression of a subsequent job step, and the > like). > > John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
