Use the Return code of a JCL job step in another JCL ??

sidharthmadaan1984 · New User Joined: 06 Apr 2008 Posts: 4 Location: Bangalore

Hi,

Can anyone please help me out in solving my below query ??

My purpose is to use the return code of a particular step in a JCL job in another JCL job... Can we use the Return code of a JCL job step in another JCL ???

plz reply..

thanx in advance...

Regards,

expat · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:40 pm

NO, not unless you capture it somehow within the first batch job and pass it as a parameter.

Dare I as what you are trying to achieve.

sidharthmadaan1984 · New User Joined: 06 Apr 2008 Posts: 4 Location: Bangalore

thanks for so early a reply dear..

actually, we have a nightly batch cycle running and we need to send the status of jobs manually everyday by checking the procs and drafting a mial... so, i wanted to make it like, if I can use the return codes of the jobs and use them to send a mail to the desired recepients through mainframes only..

i hope u got it... right ???

plz reply..

thnx in advance again...

Regards,

CICS Guy · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:10 pm

Lionel B. Dyck has a great little tool, SDFSEXT, a generalized SDSF batch tool to extract all or part of your sysout into a dataset that could be emailed.