I have the following job (cut down to include only the relevant parts):
//VAPPROC4 JOB //BACKUP1 EXEC PROC=SORTBKUP,COND=(4,LT) //EP4IN EXEC PROC=EP4IN,COND=(4,LT) //E4INPRT EXEC PROC=E4INPRT // The EP4IN PROC is a vendor supplied proc as follows: //EP4IN PROC //STEP01 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,COND=(20,LT) //STEP01A EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,COND=(20,LT) //STEP02 EXEC PGM=EPZOS,COND=(20,LT) //STEP03 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS,COND=(7,LT) //STEP04 EXEC PGM=EPTBLUPD // IF ( STEP04.RC = 3 ) THEN //STEP05 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=((7,LT),(4,LT,STEP03),(4,LT,STEP04)) // ENDIF // IF ( STEP04.RC = 0 | STEP04.RC = 4 ) THEN //STEPLAST EXEC EPLINK99 // ENDIF //EP4IN PEND //STEP06 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=(24,LT) //STEP07 EXEC PGM=EPX99,COND=(20,LT) //EP4IN PROC I've already solved my issue (which I will detail below), but I'm still unclear as to why what I had was wrong, and why my fix actually fixes it. The issue is that EP4IN.STEP06 and EP4IN.STEP07 were not being executed: IEF202I VAPPROC4 STEP06 EP4IN - STEP WAS NOT RUN BECAUSE OF CONDITION CODES IEF272I VAPPROC4 STEP06 EP4IN - STEP WAS NOT EXECUTED. IEF202I VAPPROC4 STEP07 EP4IN - STEP WAS NOT RUN BECAUSE OF CONDITION CODES IEF272I VAPPROC4 STEP07 EP4IN - STEP WAS NOT EXECUTED. STEPNAME PROCSTEP RC BACKUP1 BACKUP 00 EP4IN STEP01 00 EP4IN STEP01A 00 EP4IN STEP02 00 EP4IN STEP03 05 EP4IN STEP04 FLUSH EP4IN STEP05 FLUSH STEPLAST STEP16 FLUSH STEPLAST STEP17 FLUSH EP4IN STEP06 FLUSH EP4IN STEP07 FLUSH (It's expected that EP4IN.STEP04, EP4IN.STEP05, STEPLAST.STEP16 and STEPLAST.STEP17 do not execute under these conditions, becasue EP4IN.STEP03 resulted in RC=05; they execute only when RC=03 for this step.) Anyway, the solution is to remove the COND parameter from the "EXEC PROC=EP4IN". My new result follows: BACKUP1 BACKUP 00 EP4IN STEP01 00 EP4IN STEP01A 00 EP4IN STEP02 00 EP4IN STEP03 05 EP4IN STEP04 FLUSH EP4IN STEP05 FLUSH STEPLAST STEP16 FLUSH STEPLAST STEP17 FLUSH EP4IN STEP06 00 EP4IN STEP07 00 E4INPRT REPORT 00 What really was the issue and why did my solution resolve it? My reason for including this parameter is so that EP4IN should be bypassed if BACKUP1 fails. Once again I ponder the sanity of the inventor of COND. Thanks, Frank ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
