Restarting from 25th step if abends at 24th step

naveensri2005 · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 51 Location: chennai

hi guys,

in job I have 50 steps.the gdg dataset is creating in 1st step, the same gdg is refer in 25th step. I got abend in 24th step. Is it possible to restart from 25th step. If possible what are the changes we have to do?

radhakrishnan82 · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:10 pm

If its a non-scheduled job then while restarting you need to refer step25 GDG's generation with(+0) or else you can delete the current generation(created in first step) and can restart the job if you dont want to do any changes to job.

If it is a scheduled job running thru CA7,then there is no need to change anything.You can restart from the aborted step.

Rupesh.Kothari · Member of the Month Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 463

Hi,

I agree with Radhakrishnan for his statement regarding Non Schedule job,

radhakrishnan82 · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:37 am

rupesh,

In our shop,we run scheduling jobs thru CA-7.In such case,we normally dont disturb GDG's.

MGIndaco · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:52 pm

If I can suggest my opinion, is better allocate the final gdg at the end of the job and not at the begin... but it's only a my opinion....

prasanth_thavva · New User Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 86 Location: Chennai

Hi ,

radhakrishnan82 · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:45 pm

For non-scheduling job, relative number 0 in step25 is correct in this case.

ksivapradeep · New User Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 95

Hi radhakrishnan,

what ever may be the thing the gdg version will be created after the end of the job so how can we give (0) in the 25th step if you give (+1) there it will deffinetly work

radhakrishnan82 · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 12:23 pm

akshaiya · New User Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 49

dneufarth · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:09 am

As the original questioner has not reponded to any of these answers, I'd say too little information is known to give any advice. We don't know if a scheduler or restart software is involved. We don't know if the dataset was cataloged in creation step, or subsequent step, or passed to oblivion.

To quote the famous programmer Jerry Maguire, "show me the JCL!"

Dave

suman12 · New User Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 3

We can use Condition parameter in 25 step. But we have to use EVEN keyword.Even if the previous Step(24) abended abnormally, the current step(25) will be executed.

nitin4.a · New User Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 26

hi
suman i think by using this the abend problem will be solved but to restart
from 25th remains

for that in all the rest steps the condition shld be given like that it becomes true till 25th step then all the steps will be skipped

like if all the 24 steps are executing well then from second step u can give

cond=(0,eq)
that particular step will be skipped

regards
nitin

Anbudan · New User Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 26 Location: Germany

Hi

I agree with prasanth_thavva

This is the best solution for this question.

MGIndaco · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:25 pm

I can't understand how this post is so complicated...
I'm sure that it's a base of JCL, scheduled or not.

At my site we have introduced a standard that force users to create the gdg version at the end of each job(or its chain) to avoid this discussion and for what I see it's a very interesting standard.

The solution is only one that Prasanth_thavva said.
The real problem that I can see, and all of us have, is how to restart without using substitution and other manual activity at our site.

All comment are wellcome and correct me if I'm wrong.

funmini · New User Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 2

I agre with akshaiya & radhakrishnan82.we have to know which job it is.whether it is a non-scheduled or scheduled job ca7 run job.

ritakaur · New User Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 13 Location: Belgaum

Even i am wondering why it went complicated.The query should have explained whether it runs in scheduling mode or non-scheduling mode.
As i knew,scheduling thru ca7 cant be changed each and every time.It needs special request for changing the version or anything in case of aborts. so ca7 has such function to take the GDG(+1) inside the job as current version even when aborts.this is all i know.

rita

MGIndaco · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:13 pm

I'd like to know how the poster of this topic has solved this problem.
I'm really curious...