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nkumar

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:13 am
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Hi All,

I need a little help/guidance in creating some kind of automation for doing JCL check when there are large number of jobs. We normally use "!JCK" to check the syntax of JCL. It is ok to use when we have a handful of jobs.

But we generally have large number of jobs (say 200 jobs) for which we require to do the JCL Check.

I know about TYPRUN=SCAN but I can not edit all the 200 jobs to put this statement in job card and run all of them to see the error messages.

Can any one please suggest someway to do JCL Check in batch so that we can create some kind of report showing error messages/Jobs.

Can !JCK be submitted any batch?
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enrico-sorichetti

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:31 am
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what does the manual say ?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:29 pm
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See this previous topic.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:51 pm
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Hello,

And be aware that a jcl checker will sometimes show "errors" that are NOT errors. . .

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I know about TYPRUN=SCAN but I can not edit all the 200 jobs to put this statement in job card and run all of them to see the error messages.
Why not. . . icon_confused.gif

Many places have a commented TYPRUN=SCAN in their job statements and remove the * when they want to do a scan.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:55 pm
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Can !JCK be submitted any batch?

Hi,
Invoke JCLCHECK in batch for all the members in PDS.

Below is the sample code which scans all the members in the PDS for JCLCHECK.
Code:

//JCLCHECK  EXEC  PGM=JCLCHECK,PARM='O(OPTS)'                   
//STEPLIB   DD  DSN=SYS2.CAI.JCHK.CAILIB,DISP=SHR               
//*         DD  DSN=SYS3.CAI.JCHK.CAIPLD,DISP=SHR               
//SYSPRINT  DD  SYSOUT=*                                       
//SYSTSPRT  DD  SYSOUT=*                                       
//SYSTERM   DD  SYSOUT=*                                       
//SYSGRAPH  DD  SYSOUT=*,DCB=(RECFM=FBA,LRECL=133,BLKSIZE=1330)
//£NOSTDIN  DD  DUMMY,DCB=BLKSIZE=80                           
//SYSRDR    DD  SYSOUT=(A,INTRDR)                               
//OPTS      DD  *                                               
CC(5)  CT    SP(NOR 65 NOALL) V                                 
F PXR(RPT) SX RP ER(END)                                       
SYN RUNT                                                       
J XREF                                                         
AUTOP                                                           
PDS                                                             
//SYSIN     DD  DSN=HQL.WHERE.JOB.IS,DISP=SHR                   
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 3:20 pm
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Escapa,

i dont see any proclib dd-statements.
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Nic Clouston

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:57 pm
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I suspect that the proclib DDs are in the run decks which are, presumably, in SYSIN
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Nic,

there are a lot of parameters to feed to JCLCHECK by SYSIN, but one has
to supply the proclibs by means of dd-statements. Like in the JES2 procedure.
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nkumar

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:09 am
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Thank You Everyone (particularly Escapa) for your response for my query. I finally found something which will get me started.

Following JCL is working fine for a single job. I am now planning to write a REXX code to create the "OPTS" card for each member in JCL library and submit them through REXX.
Code:

//JCLCHECK  EXEC  PGM=JCLCHECK,PARM='O(OPTS)'                 
//STEPLIB   DD  DSN=SYS0.CAI.CAILIB,DISP=SHR                   
//SYSPRINT  DD  SYSOUT=*                                       
//SYSTSPRT  DD  SYSOUT=*                                       
//SYSTERM   DD  SYSOUT=*                                       
//SYSGRAPH  DD  SYSOUT=*,DCB=(RECFM=FBA,LRECL=133,BLKSIZE=1330)
//$NOSTDIN  DD  DUMMY,DCB=BLKSIZE=80                           
//JCHKPLIB  DD  DSN=SYS1.PROCLIB,DISP=SHR                     
//SYSRDR    DD  SYSOUT=(A,INTRDR)                             
//OPTS      DD  *                                             
CC(5) CON CT   SEV(8) SP(RPT 65 NOALL) V PROCX                 
F PXR(RPT) SX RP ER( END)  NOMVS SYSUID(userid)               
SYN RUNT                                                       
PROC(JCHKPLIB) J XREF                                         
PDS INCLUDE(member name)                                           
/*                                                             
//SYSIN     DD  DSN=JCL Library,DISP=SHR   


I further got some help from the below link. It helped me set my "option specifications"

http://it.unm.edu/ais/docs/stdjclcheck.htm

Thank you once again everyone. I will try to give an update once I succeed in complete automation of JCL check for large number of jobs.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:35 pm
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One thing I would caution you on: Try to figure out the proper sequence of the jobs and check them in that sequence.

This is coming from a shop using JOBSCAN, which is a different product, but it may be the same thing with JCLCHECK. Some jobs catalog files used by later jobs, and you can be driven crazy trying to weed out the false hits. If I check the jobs in sequence, those go away and I only get real errors.

With JOBSCAN, it keeps track of files cataloged in the "current run", and will not show a "dataset not found" condition.

I have a job set up to run our scheduler to show the proper job sequence, then it reads the job names and runs them through the scanner in order.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:22 pm
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Thanks Ed Goodman !!

I am still going through the manual (HELP) of JCLCHECK. I can see that it has feature (PDSRelate) similar to what you have mentioned.

PDSRelate- The PDSRELate option causes JCLCheck to treat input from a
PDS as a related series of jobs. Thus by specifying PDSRELate and SXref, JCLCheck will produce a set of cross reference reports that correctly represents a series of jobs.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2022 11:09 pm
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Code:

//JCLCHECK  EXEC  PGM=JCLCHECK,PARM='O(OPTS)'                 
//STEPLIB   DD  DSN=SYS0.CAI.CAILIB,DISP=SHR                   
//SYSPRINT  DD  SYSOUT=*                                       
//SYSTSPRT  DD  SYSOUT=*                                       
//SYSTERM   DD  SYSOUT=*                                       
//SYSGRAPH  DD  SYSOUT=*,DCB=(RECFM=FBA,LRECL=133,BLKSIZE=1330)
//$NOSTDIN  DD  DUMMY,DCB=BLKSIZE=80                           
//JCHKPLIB  DD  DSN=SYS1.PROCLIB,DISP=SHR                     
//SYSRDR    DD  SYSOUT=(A,INTRDR)                             
//OPTS      DD  *                                             
CC(5) CON CT   SEV(8) SP(RPT 65 NOALL) V PROCX                 
F PXR(RPT) SX RP ER( END)  NOMVS SYSUID(userid)               
SYN RUNT                                                       
PROC(JCHKPLIB) J XREF                                         
PDS INCLUDE(member name)                                           
/*                                                             
//SYSIN     DD  DSN=JCL Library,DISP=SHR   




This the JCL that I get from CA JCLCHECK tool. But it mostly (90%) fails with S222 abend in both batch or online check. The same error persists even in online check of a single JCL member input.

Error Message :
Code:

LAST STEP COMPLETION CODE WAS SYSTEM 222
<User-ID> LOGGED OFF TSO AT 10:14:08 ON NOVEMBER 5, 2022



ACF82904  ACF2, SESSION TERMINATED.



***

***

Job/online fails in a fraction of seconds (CPU TIME is 0). Hence it is not timed out error. Hence I opened a helpdesk ticket within our company, they have 5 days SLA, but I need to implement in 2 days. hence seeing help here.

When I tried to check all jobs (23 jobs) in a PDS, same error (S222) appears before JCL pops-up.

2) Another help. Can we use JCLCHECK to check PROCs. Is there any option to be specified in "OPTS" to do so?

All I need is to check 23 JCLs and 86 PROCs which I have modified a line in a step in all components ( All components are up& running in PROD).
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2022 1:59 am
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Why not start a new topic instead of resurrecting a year old one?
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2022 9:41 am
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S222 means the job was cancelled - not timed out. You need to find out who cancelled the job and why.
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