Need to know the return code of cataloged procedure

Dinesh Manivannan · New User Joined: 17 Mar 2008 Posts: 17 Location: India

Hi,

My requirement is to send mail to end user when any of the step fails in any proc of a job.

Ex: I have 3 procs which is called by single job. If any of the steps from any proc is abended I need to send mail.

I don't want to change the proc. Is there a way to check the return of a proc and send the mail to users accordingly.

Thanks in advance.

Bill Woodger · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:54 pm

Procedures, catalogued or otherwise, don't have any sort of return/abend code in themselves. Each individual step in any procedure does.

Are you clear about what "abend" means? If so, have a look at COND=ONLY in the JCL Reference (link at the top of the page).

Gnanas N · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:56 pm

Hi Dinesh,

Please check this.

Dinesh Manivannan · New User Joined: 17 Mar 2008 Posts: 17 Location: India

Thanks Gnanaz. It worked.

Bill Woodger · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:27 pm

Gnana's is a solution with much more control. Remember if you have steps which can produce a non-zero condition-code but that is OK, you need to handle that.

Also, make sure you read it up in the JCL reference, it may not operate how you feel it should: operator/user CANCEL; JCL error (initial, or during the job). So make sure you test things like that and don't just assume that it is "working".

You may find that your Scheduler can send e-mails, and this might give you better coverage of problems with the Job.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:56 pm

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:48 pm

And I always thought "fail" and RC>0 are not always same...