At this stage, you are introduced to report editing, an advanced feature of Control-D. This exercise illustrates some advantages of using rulers (sets of screen editing rules) on MSGCLASS output. In a later section additional uses for rulers and how to define them are discussed.
Production personnel spend much time examining MSGCLASS output for error messages (for example, condition codes, abend codes, JCL errors, NOT CATLGD 2, and so on). Control-D rulers can make this task easier.
Figure 20 Screen with Defined Ruler Activated
----------------- CONTROL-D REPORT VIEWING NOTES 0 PAGE 1 OF 5
COMMAND ===> SCROLL ===> CRSR
USER PRODCNTL JOBNAME M22UPDT1 JOBNUMB 0001948 DATA 050500 RULER $JOBCHK
REPORT PRODUCTION JCL
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8 13.38.47 JOB 1948 IEF403I M22UPDT1 - STARTED - TIME=13.38.47
13.39.29 JOB 1948 IEF453I M22UPDT1 - JOB FAILED - JCL ERROR - TIME=13.39.29
IEF142I M22UPDT1 STEP1 - STEP WAS EXECUTED - COND CODE 0000
IEF142I M22UPDT1 STEP2 - STEP WAS EXECUTED - COND CODE 0004
IEF142I M22UPDT1 STEP3 - STEP WAS EXECUTED - COND CODE 0000
IEF142I M22UPDT1 STEP4 - STEP WAS EXECUTED - COND CODE 0000
IEF212I M22UPDT1 STEP5 DD1 - DATA SET NOT FOUND
IEF272I M22UPDT1 STEP5 - STEP WAS NOT EXECUTED.
IEF376I JOB /M22UPDT1/ STOP 96125.1339 CPU 0MIN 00.38SEC SRB 0MIN 00.04
====== >>>>>>>>>>>>>> NO MORE DATA TO VIEW <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< =====
CMDS: FIND str (PREV), EDIT, RULER on/off/name, VALUE, N n P n 11.57.55
Notice that you are viewing the original report again. Activate the ruler as often as you want.
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