I'd say that this is such an egregious oversight that it should be APARable even after all this time. There's no statute of limitations on bad design.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 1:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: ARC0104I INVALID INITIALIZATION COMMAND > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 1:41 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: ARC0104I INVALID INITIALIZATION COMMAND > > On 6/21/2018 11:59 AM, Gibney, Dave wrote: > > I expected as much. Another possibility is to insert some LOG > > commands into your ARCCMD00 perhaps even as frequently as to echo > > each SETSYS > > I thought we could try something like that, but it seems that some (or > maybe > all?) of the commands are being executed asynchronously. Plus, I'm not > sure what kind of "log" commands are available in the ARCCMDxx member. > Do you know? I've not found a command I couldn't include in ARCCMDxx, but I admit I've not tried many. I didn't know about the aysnc possibility, but I guess I'm not surprised DFHSM has been "mulit threaded" from the start. I am sorry, I can't remember the last time I had an error to find here. Once set, this is not a frequently changing member :) My last thought now is a tedious hand comparison against the results of a QUERY SETSYS > > I'm truly astonished that this problem exists in the first place and > -- based on responses I've seen so far -- has been around from the > beginning. Should not the error message include the first 'n' > characters of command text and/or line number in the input "deck"? The > whole thing is crazy! No one has complained to IBM about this serious > shortcoming before now?! > > -- > Phoenix Software International > Edward E. Jaffe > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN