difference Between purge and cancel

medepallirao · New User Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 6 Location: pune

HI
let me know the differnce between purge and cancel of JObs in spool
thanks
venkat

ofer71 · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:33 pm

The CANCEL command just cancels the job, leaving its output in the spool. The PURGE cpmmand cancels and purges the job (and its outputs) from the spool.

O.

jayant_tibhe · New User Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 27 Location: Pune

Hi Venkat,

The Difference between Purge & Cancel:
that cancel and purge commands work differently. If you issue a cancel command it will just cancel the job , but the job output is still available, but on the other if you issue a purge command , it not only cancels the job but also will delete the entire the job output.

Cheers

medepallirao · New User Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 6 Location: pune

Thanks jayant for quick reply

mkssampathkumar · New User Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 57 Location: chennai

Hi venkat
Ur answer is very useful.
Am having a doubt in ur answer.
if we do cancel , the job output is still available .where it is available.how to check wheteher it is available or not.
after i cancel the job,I searched in spool area to check wheteher job output is availabvle or not.
but its not there..
How to check it..

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:59 am

SDSF --> ST

sarunkumaar · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:20 pm

SDSF --> ST

Issue OWNER YOUR_ID in command prompt

then Issue PRE JOB_ID in command prompt

twissi · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:38 pm

Sarunkumaar,

It's the JOBNAME not the JobID that you should be prefixing..

Cheers, Twissi.

mkssampathkumar · New User Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 57 Location: chennai

Hi
I tried what u told..
i cancelled one job in my spool area.
after i gave the job id which i cancelled.
It displaying "no match".

Thanks

UmeySan · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:49 pm

Hi !

>> cancelled one job in my spool area

What does this mean. I think you cancel a running Job by using C in SDSF ST or DA Panel. When you do this, the JobOutput is still in SDSF-Queue. Enter ST in SDSF an you see your job. First set the Owner to your UserId.

in JESMSGLG you could see: STEP050 *S222
S222 cancel by user

Also use CD for cancel a running Job/Programm with producing a dump.

Regards, umeySan

mkssampathkumar · New User Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 57 Location: chennai

Hi
They didnt mention anything regarding the type of job.i.e (running job or complted job).so am not cancelled runnibg job.
Just i tried with a job which is already executed job..

"cancelled one job in my spool area" means am cancelling a job in my spool area(IOF JOB SUMMARY) using 'C' OPTION.

after i cancelled a job using "C" option in spool area(IOF JOB SUMMARY ,i Gave the job id which i already cancelled
it shows "NO MATCH".

Note:
here we r using IOF instead of SD;ST.
Is there any difference?
Plz correct me if i wrong
Thanks

UmeySan · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:19 pm

Hi mkssampathkumar !

Ok, thats a little bit diffrent. SDSF is a more comfortable Spool-Display/Search Utility. ST/DA are commands for SDSF.

It's long time ago i worked in an IOF-Environment, so i don't remember correctly the C-Command.

Sorry & Regards, UmeySan

mkssampathkumar · New User Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 57 Location: chennai

Hi umey
Thanks for ur reply..