[Info-vax] SUBMIT/CONFIRM behavior

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-12-07 kl. 05:59, skrev 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

This "works" (Alpha 8.4-2L2):

$ direc sub*.com

Directory $1$DGA3610:[JES]

SUB.COM;1           SUB2.COM;1

Total of 2 files.
$
$ subm/noprint sub*.com /confirm
SUBMIT $1$DGA3610:[JES]SUB.COM;1 ? [N]: Y
SUBMIT $1$DGA3610:[JES]SUB2.COM;1 ? [N]: N
Job SUB (queue SYS$BATCH, entry 276) started on SYS$BATCH
$

I guess that, if you need the /confirm switch, you are expected to
use a file specification that returns more then one file.

Still shouldn'r return that error...

Regards,

Jan-Erik.

PS:
And it still expects that you want to submit at least one file. :-)

$ subm/noprint sub*.com /confirm
SUBMIT $1$DGA3610:[JES]SUB.COM;1 ? [N]: N
SUBMIT $1$DGA3610:[JES]SUB2.COM;1 ? [N]: N
%SUBMIT-F-CREJOB, error creating job
-UTIL-W-FILFAIMAT, file failed to match selection criteria
$