On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:44:03 -0600, John McDowell wrote: > >You got me there :-) I should have been more careful setting my constraints, >let me try again :-) > >How do you suppress the execution of the 1st step in a job using existing JCL >facilities without modifying the JOB statement ? > Ya gotta change something. The JOB statement works as well as anything else.
Yet, I appeal to consistency. If some designer pranced into the room and announced, "There's never any reason to skip the first step, so I'm designing IF so the first step is never skipped," I'd order him dragged outside and shot. (But, remember, even if IF appears before the first step, there's no supported operand syntax that would result in that first step being skipped. I'd change that. (I'd welcome refutation).) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
