I have not been following this thread -- seemed like IBMMAIN navel-gazing -- but FWIW IEFBR14 seems to be documented in the JCL U/G.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Linda Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 4:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: AW: Re: You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code Google search with the search terms - Iefbr14 site:IBM.com Yields a bunch of results, including IBM manuals. HTH, Linda Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 10, 2016, at 1:25 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Feb 10, 2016, at 1:55 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >> On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:26:17 +0100, Peter Hunkeler wrote: >> >>>> ?That doesn?t apply to ?true?, though, right?? >>>> ?Of course not, use some common sense.? >>> >>> That would require the knowledge of /bin/true to be common sense, which I doubt. I like the idea of help being available even for what might look like an obvious command to some. >> Agreed. And "IEFBR14" is far less "common sense" than "true". So, >> where does IBM document IEFBR14. Utilities? No, those are largely "IEB" prefix. >> A brief search turns up several documents that mention use of >> IEFBR14, but none that officially specify it. It shouldn't default to "That's common knowledge," >> as an IBM employee has here attempted to justify absence of >> documentation of another z/OS facility. > ---------------------SNIP---------------------- > I don't recall of it ever being documented, anyone? > Just to be totally correct there are *NO* messages that it produces so there is no prefix needed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
