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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories JES2
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 10, 2021

Enhance JOBRC

Add a new option to JOBRC.

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Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
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    Mar 17, 2022

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - JES2
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - JES2/JES3
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

  • Guest
    Reply
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    Feb 11, 2021

    For now maybe you can work around by using the JOBRC=LASTRC function? Something like this:

    //COMPILE JOB XXXX,CLASS=J,COND=(4,LT),JOBRC=LASTRC
    //*
    //COMPILE EXEC PGM=XXX
    //*
    //MEMBLIB EXEC PGM=YYY
    //*
    //LOADLIB EXEC PGM=ZZZ
    //*
    // IF (MEMLIB.RC EQ 4) THEN
    //SETRC0 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
    // ENDIF
    //*
    // IF (COMPILE.RC EQ 4) | LOADLIB.RC EQ 4 THEN
    //IDCAMS EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
    //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
    //SYSIN DD *
    SET MAXCC = 4
    // ENDIF

    Regards,
    Ron Bakker