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Incident: JCL ERROR after a one-line change

INC22031 · 06:05 · MPSYS
PAGE 06:05 SEV4 - Job RPTCOPY ended JCL ERROR
Change CHG31902 at 17:10: point the payment report at the new production file

RPTCOPY prints yesterday's payments. Change CHG31902 changed one line of its JCL to read the new production file. Tonight it did not run at all: JCL ERROR. Find the line and get the report.

What you will do

  1. Read the JCL error message
  2. Find the statement it points at
  3. Fix it and rerun

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