Difference between Purge & Cancel

aripallig · New User Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 23 Location: india

What is the differnce between purge and cancel of the JCL in SDSF.

thanks
girish

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:51 am

Hello,

Cancel abends the job.

Purge removes it from the system.

aripallig · New User Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 23 Location: india

Hello

thanks for your reply.

Regards
Girish

aajakashif · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Posts: 27 Location: New Delhi

I've got one question here:

What is the difference between Purging a running JOB and Cancelling a running JOB.

for e.g -

for purging, we type P against the running JOB name in SDSF

for cancelling, we type C against the running JOB name in SDSF

Please explain in detail..I wud appreciate it. Thanks.

expat · Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 8:25 pm

aajakashif · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Posts: 27 Location: New Delhi

Hi Dick,

Sir, I wanted to know whther purging a running JOB (by typing P against the JOB name in SDSF) would cancel it first and then removes it from the system OR it would not cancel the running JOB at all ???

Bill Dennis · Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 9:10 pm

A purge cancels the job and deletes the job's output from JES.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 9:45 pm

After output processing is complete, the purge releases all spool space associated with the completed job. CANCEL command is used to end an active job and that's all.