This sure sounds like a discussion from the 1980s. Operators? Consoles? Those are still a thing?
Try out the new // NOTIFY statement, and send an email to whoever needs to wake up. sas On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 8:37 PM CM Poncelet <ponce...@bcs.org.uk> wrote: > The COND=EVEN/ONLY will not work if the job hits a *JCL error*. <g> > > > On 04/11/2019 23:56, Charles Mills wrote: > > It would be nice if there were a way to get the condition codes into the > WTO program, something like (don't try this at home): > > > > //WTO1 EXEC PGM=WTO,COND=EVEN, > > // PARM='Job FOOBAR terminating. Highest CC was &MAXCC' > > > > I seem to recall a discussion here about retrieving the last and maximum > job CC's from within a program running as a jobstep and the answer was that > there was no good way. > > > > Charles > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson > > Sent: Monday, November 4, 2019 1:01 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: WTO message at the end of JCL > > > > MVS has provided such a mechanism forever using > > > > 1. a program that issues a WTO > > > > 2. conditional execution on the WTO step with COND=EVEN or ONLY > (depending on the logic required) > > > > Most shops already have a more or less sophisticated (security wise) > program to issue a WTO. Conditional JCL is free for the coding. Every shop > I've worked in uses the mechanism to manage production, including my > current one. There is as Brian says no way to handle a JCL error without an > external 'product'. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > . > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
