On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:16:25 -0600, McKown, John wrote: >Do you ever want to "retire" some step(s) from a job? But you don't really >want to remove the step(s) "just in case"? I don't remember this being >mentioned before, so I thought I would. It will work for any step, other than >the first one in the job. Find a step, any step, before the step(s) you want >to bypass. Wrap the step(s) you want to bypass with: > >// IF (stepname.RUN=TRUE AND stepname.RUN=FALSE) THEN >.... steps to be bypassed >// ENDIF > >Replace "stepname" with the name of the step you selected which exists before >the bypassed step(s). This works if the previous step ran or didn't run, >regardless of the step's return code if it did run. Sorry if this was obvious. >Maybe my brain has retired already. > For a single step, I use COND=(0,LE) on the EXEC statement. There must be a prior step; I don't know whether it must have run. When useful, I start the job with an IEFBR14 step. This usually runs.
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