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[Milind]

How to skip a PROC step with out altering it??

I have procedure named ABC as

//ABC PROC
//S1 ....
// .....

//S2 ....
..........
//S3....
.......
//S4....
.........

S1, S2, S3 AND S4 are four steps in this procedure.

When I call ABC as:
//s000 exec proc=abc
All the four steps inside it will be executed one by one.
I want to skip a perticular step in this procedure.
Is it possibel?

Thanks in advance.
Milind Deshmukh.

[Ram]

Milind,

Try coding the restart parameter on the job card. Coding a restart parameter will start the execution from the mentioned step and will continue till the end. Hope this will solve the purpose.

Thanks,
Ram

[bauer]

Hi milind,

1) Code a simple Cobol / pl1 program,named CHECK for example which accepts on parameter, values RUN or NORUN an sets an returncode. If Parameter = RUN then returncode = 1, other = 0.

2) Before your 4 Steps insert 4 additional steps, calling the CHECK program.

[gavini_vasu]

Though it is an old post, here is what we use at our shop to skip steps.

Wherever the PROC is called just add COND.STEPXX=(0,EQ) like..

[Mervyn]

I tend to use COND.STEP10=(0,LE) just in case a previous return code greater than zero is valid.
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