On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:16:25 -0600, McKown, John 
<[email protected]> 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.
>

Similar to this I posted in April 2009 regarding the SMFDUMP proc in my 
sandboxes:

https://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0904&L=ibm-main&P=450938

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