[Info-vax] SUBMIT/CONFIRM behavior

[Jeffrey H. Coffield]

A customer asked me to explain how SUBMIT/CONFIRM works. I had never 
used this command combination so I checked $ HELP SUBMIT /CONFIRM and 
then made a simple TEST.COM that just did a $DIR and tried
"$ SUBMIT/CONFIRM TEST"

If you answer Y (or T or 1) it submits the job but if you accept the 
default or enter N you get:

VMS3 $ SUBMIT/CONFIRM TEST.COM
SUBMIT SYS$SYSDEVICE:[JEFFREY]TEST.COM;1 ? [N]:
%SUBMIT-F-CREJOB, error creating job
-UTIL-W-FILFAIMAT, file failed to match selection criteria
VMS3 $

with $STATUS as %X10C1800C.

Although I showed the customer a better way to do what he really wanted 
to do, this seems to be a bug in SUBMIT. "/CONFIRM" on any command 
should not throw an error if you enter "N". I use DELETE/CONFIRM and 
COPY/CONFIRM very often and entering "N" doesn't throw an error.

The same thing happens on Alpha OpenVMS V8.3, Itanium OpenVMS V8.4 and 
Itanium OpenVMS V8.4-2L1

Any ideas?

Jeff
www.digitalsynergyinc.com