Submit JCL to INTRDR and check the status of job

srajendran2 · New User Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 56 Location: Chennai

Hi,

After a JCL is submitted from COBOL to INTRDR, is there a way we can check the status of the job by communicating with JES from COBOL?

Thanks

Pandora-Box · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 1:42 am

Can you explain what are you going to do checking the status of the submitted job?

Answering this might help you get better suggestions

srajendran2 · New User Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 56 Location: Chennai

The program submits a copy JCL. The output is a GDG. We just want to make sure the copy is successful without manually monitoring it every time.

Pandora-Box · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 2:02 am

Re-designing this to have the COPY job scheduled(Using your shop's scheduler) is more sensible option which would ease your job of monitoring the job completion

daveporcelan · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 4:20 pm

You could add two steps to the end of your COPY job.

//TEST1 IF (COPYSTEP.RC EQ 0)
send good email
//ELSETEST ELSE
send bad email
//ENDTEST1 ENDIF

Rohit Umarjikar · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 9:55 pm

expat · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 11:42 am

Got to agree - the scheduler is the way to go.

Why add something that may need maintaining down the line in years to come when that is already adequately catered for in the scheduling software.

srajendran2 · New User Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 56 Location: Chennai

Thanks for all the suggestions. I went with scheduler as suggested. I also tried to call Rexx from COBOL using IRXJCL which could check the status of the job in spool for a job name passed and it was successful.