ENTER JOBNAME CHARACTER(S) - Prompt TSO Job Submission With Top Secret

Products

• Top Secret

Issue/Introduction

When submitting an IEFBR14 batch job from TSO option 2 (EDIT), the following prompt occurs:

ENTER JOBNAME CHARACTER(S) - 

When entering 'X', the following occurs:

JOB xxxxX(JOBnnnnn) SUBMITTED
hh.mm.ss JOBnnnnn $HASP165 xxxxX ENDED AT yy - JCL ERROR CN(INTERNAL) 
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The job then submits and runs to completion. The jcl looks like this:

000001 ********************* Top of Data **********************
000002 //jobcard
000003 //rest of job

Environment

Release : 16.0

Resolution

Line 000001 is invalid

000001 ***************** Top of Data *************

Remove this line and the job should submit without any prompt.