Write a rexx tool which will monitor the job and email

praba_jas · New User Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 11

Hi All,

We have a set of around 50 jobs running daily. We are planning to automate the job monitoring job by writing a rexx tool which will monitor the job and if a job abends it will trigger a mail.

Can any one of you help me on this regard. Please send me if any sample code available

Regards,
Jasmine

superk · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:22 pm

Monitor the job how? By reading the job start (IEF403I), end (IEF404I) and abend (IEF450I) messages off the SSI?

cpuhawg · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:02 pm

How about adding a step to each of the 50 jobs to send an e-mail in the event of an abend. The step could have a COND=ONLY parameter that would only execute should the preceeding step abnormally terminate.

superk · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:05 pm

cpuhawg, that's the exact same question I ask our development folks whenever they ask for something like this. So far, their standard answer is that "they don't want to". Sigh.

cpuhawg · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:50 pm

I totally understand. A REXX program to monitor the start and ending of batch jobs would be extremely complex to write and would probably burn up more CPU than a more simplistic approach. In my experience, I tend to avoid using SMF because of the volume of records to scan through and the occasional loss of SMF data. Also, historical SMF is always migrated and requires recalling and live SMF (for the novice) is difficult to get to unless offloaded.

All we can do is provide various options based on our years of experience (having come from the days of using punched cards for JCL).

praba_jas · New User Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 11

Hi cpuhawg,

The idea for Adding a step to trigger mail in the job itself is not accepted
in our environment too.(donno the reason!!!!!)

Please let me know if there are any other alternate ways of doing it.

Thanks all of you for sparing your time.

Regards,
Jasmine

superk · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 4:41 pm

Getting back to my first question, how do you intend to monitor the jobs (with what tool or process or function)?

praba_jas · New User Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 11

Hi superk,

We monitor the job using SAR tool currently.

Thanks&Regards,
Jasmine

superk · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:41 pm

Does this SAR tool provide you with utilities that allow you to use REXX to interact with it?

praba_jas · New User Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 11

NO. It doesnt provide any.

Regards,
Jasmine

superk · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:12 pm

Well, normally I would think that you would want to use your console automation tools (Netview, AutoOperator, OPS/MVS, etc.) to handle the monitoring and alerting for you.

The only alternative I can think of is to use the two TSO commands, STATUS and OUTPUT, to track the status of known jobs and to retrieve the job messages from the spool.

TSO STATUS Command.

TSO OUTPUT Command.

baidyanath_biswas · New User Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 11

we r also using SAR for getting job-run details,and need to send the end time of 13 sets of jobs. actually SAR is similar to spool,except that it stores the details of the job run for next 3 months. So we need to interact REXX with SAR. But the problem is after 1-2 days,the details go into tape storage from disk. so we ve to recall it again,that's a big problem..
So we want it to interact with CA7 where all job run details would be stored. Is there any database for job run in CA7 and can it be accessed using queries or REXX?