JCL restarts

n_rajesh · New User Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Chennai

I have with two questions:

1) If your job has Step1,2,3,4 and Step2 abends, how will you restart the job. (Note : Step2 has IF/THEN RC condition)?

2) If your job has step1,2,3,4, what you will do if you need run only Step3?

Aaru · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:53 pm

Rajesh,

Welcome to the forums.

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

stodolas · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:11 pm

And.... if production abended and you have no access to the jobcard to change these things?

superk · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:31 pm

What is the site's policy for handling both events? What do the Production Support people say? I would find it hard to belive that no jobs have ever needed to be restarted before.

stodolas · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:34 pm

I just posted as a counter to coding things on the job card. We aren't allowed to touch production jobs unless there is absolutely no other way to fix the abended job. We can however call operations and say, restart this job in Step xxx### and they take care of it. Our other alternative is to copy the job to a temp library and remove steps if there is logic or code the job card.

beruoist · New User Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 70 Location: mumbai

I am in prod support from last two years..the same scenario is with we me also..

for these kindaa situatons we have to ask the operatrions guys to simply start the jobs from the failed step..

now what they do is the same thing,,edit's the JCL with the necessary loadlibs in the black box and re-runs the job

cheers!!!
chirkut

stodolas · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:05 am

CA7 here lets them specify a restart step without modification of the job

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

Steve said:

gcicchet · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:52 am

Hi,
I have only seen 1 answer on part 1 of the question
ie.

die7nadal · Active User Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 156

die7nadal · Active User Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 156

There was a typo in my previous post,

Suppose if your IF/THEN statement says
IF STEP0001.RC=2 THEN

change it to
IF (STEP0001.RUN=FALSE) OR (STEP0001.RC=2)

Also add RESTART=STEP0002 to the Jobcard.

Craq Giegerich · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:45 pm

die7nadal · Active User Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 156

gcicchet · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:59 am

Hi,
I was really more concerned if you were executing a catalog procedure, I know you can copy the proc out and either remove the IF/THEN statement or change it to FALSE, but how do you override the PROC as you can do with normal COND parameters.
That's why I was asking how to nullify the IF/THEN parameter.

Gerry