IF STATEMENT OVERRIDE causing CAY6339E

Products

• JCLCheck Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

 The following JCL is using an IF statement to override a DD 

//Jobcard                             
//STEP10 EXEC TESTPRC                                             
//         IF (STEP10.STEP10.RC GE 4) THEN                        
//STEP20.DD2 DD DSN=DATASET.DD2.OVERRIDE,DISP=SHR                      
//         ENDIF                                                     
//*                                                                  
//STEP20 EXEC TESTPRC                

 

The TESTPRC is as follows:

 

//TESTPRC PROC                                               
//STEP10  EXEC PGM=IEFBR14                                   
//DD1      DD DSN=DATASET.DD1,DISP=(MOD,DELETE,DELETE), 
//             SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)),UNIT=DASD                    
//DD2      DD DSN=DATASET.DD2,DISP=SHR                 
//*                                                           
//STEP20  EXEC PGM=IEFBR14                                   
//DD1      DD DSN=DATASET.DD1,DISP=(MOD,DELETE,DELETE), 
//             SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)),UNIT=DASD                    
//DD2      DD DSN=DATASET.DD2,DISP=SHR            

JCLCHECK issues the following error message:

//         IF (STEP10.STEP10.RC GE 4) THEN                      
//STEP20.DD2 DD DSN=DATASET.DD2.OVERRIDE,DISP=SHR
//STEP20.DD2 DD DSN=DATASET.DD2.OVERRIDE,DISP=SHR                    
CAY6033W ATTEMPTED OVERRIDE OF "DD2" IN STATEMENT 14 FAILED -      
         STATEMENTS OUT OF ORDER                                   
CAY6339E STATEMENT MISPLACED WITHIN AN IF-THEN-ELSE CLAUSE         
//         ENDIF                                                   

                            

Environment

Release : 12.0

Component : JCLCheck Workload Automation

Cause

The IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF statements are used to conditionally execute job steps within a JCL but not to override JCL sentences so the format of the following IF sentence in the JCL is not valid.

//         IF (STEP10.STEP10.RC GE 4) THEN                        
//STEP20.DD2 DD DSN=DATASET.DD2.OVERRIDE,DISP=SHR               
//         ENDIF   

 

This is not valid JCL coding and the JCL fails when it is submitted.

So this is correct that JCLCHECK issues the CAY6033W message and is working as designed

 

Resolution

Use the IF sentences in the JCL as they are documented at MVS JCL Reference (page 411).