This. As an automation guy, I've encountered support folks changing PGM=<legit thing> to PGM=IEFBR14 to keep <legit thing> from executing while maintenance is being done, or when they're drafting the change task to retire it. And who do you think the Operations staff calls when they can't get the task to keep running? Three guesses...
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 3:28 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > A started proc is just JCL that executes some program. Any program *might* > behave as you describe. IEFBR14 would behave as you describe. People would > probably need more specifics to be able to help. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Skippy the Ancient > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 12:48 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Started task stopping immediately. No error messages. > > Has anyone seeing a started task immediately after you start it? No ACF2 > messages. No error codes. > Nothing. > > Help? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
