On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:47:17 -0500, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote:
>Yesterday I needed to run a quick test of a USS-resident program from batch, >which I certainly knew was possible but had never done before. Found various >pages talking about how to use BPXBATCH, tried it. RC=0 but no program >output. None. Zero. Nada. Tinkered with DDs for STDOUT and STDERR >(SYSOUT=*), no joy. Tried routing to DASD, no joy. Scratched head, gave up >for the day. > > > >Looked at it again this morning and saw the problem instantly. Now, as we >all know, there is no new JCL: every bit of JCL is descended from a fragment >found on a stone tablet on the side of a mountain near Poughkeepsie back in >the early 1960s. Every "new" job is just an old job, modified. > > > >And it happened that the job I'd taken as my template had TYPRUN=SCAN. >Wasn't even aware I had any such.! > > > >Presumably I won't make that mistake again.* > > > >...phsiii > > > >*This week > > Yep, simply sounds like a DD DUMMY moment.....I can raise my mouse-cursor to that happening in my world, way too often !! Scott Barry SBBTech LLC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
