Why do you get 'COMMAND JCK NOT FOUND' when JCK command is used? Why must you use !JCK?

Products

• JCLCheck Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Why do you get 'COMMAND JCK NOT FOUND' when JCK command is used?  

If command !JCK is used, then JCLCheck is invoked successfully.  

 

 

Environment

Release: All
Component: JCLCheck Workload Automation

Resolution

JCK is a program (load module) macro and it resides in the JCLCheck load library.

There are 2 ways to tell the ISPF editor to run a program macro:

use prefix "!"
use the DEFINE command to define the name as a program macro
(ex: DEFINE JCK MACRO PGM)

The first time you execute !JCK, ISPF registers it as a program macro and thereafter you can omit the prefix within the same TSO session.