I agree with Rex ... our operators have found that they can check JCL when they have to restart it from a step in the middle of the job. Just by hitting the PF key they can see that they got all the GDG references correct.
Thanks, Ron McCabe Manager of Mainframe/Midrange Systems Mutual of Enumclaw -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2021 11:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [External] Re: JCL checkers? CAUTION: This email is from an external address. Please be careful of links and attachments. Mitch, Also true, but still nice to catch the typo'd program name that would have caused an 806 or the missing PDS member or any of the other pile of things a TYPRUN=SCAN doesn't catch. They can't catch everything but ours definitely took care of a lot of potential problems before they happened, just by hitting a PFKey. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mitch Mccluhan Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2021 1:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [External] Re: JCL checkers? ...true, very slick, until you submit the JCL for execution and find out that the job before it deleted an input dataset, or that the JCL called a control card member that was empty, or that the program to be executed in step 3 wasn't compiled properly so the job abends. Mitch -----Original Message----- From: Pommier, Rex <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, Mar 11, 2021 1:34 pm Subject: Re: [External] Re: JCL checkers? Chris, It must have just been put into place. Back in the late 80s, early 90s when I installed JCLCheck I activated that function. In ISPF edit hit a PFKey and it ran the check, popping JCL errors etc. right in the edit session. I agree, very slick. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chris Hoelscher Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2021 1:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [External] Re: JCL checkers? We use JCLCHECK - either a new feature was introduced in 2020, or an existing feature was put in play at our site - it allows JCLCHECK to be invoked from a TSO edit session - VERY NICE The batch version also allows jcl to be checked for customizable requirements to allow things are just the way we want them for our production repository - helps when building an xref Chris Hoelscher Lead Sys DBA IBM Global Technical Services on assignmemt to Humana Inc. T 502.476.2538 or 502.407.7266 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bill Giannelli Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2021 1:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IBM-MAIN] JCL checkers? 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