Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 10 Topics: 6 Location: India
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject: Restarting a Particular job step
Hi,
We are running some of the job in threads, like A1, A2... A12, where A1, A2...A12 each one the individual job runs simultanously. Since all these job have similar programs accessing same tables, we are keep getting
-911 (DEAD LOCK) problems.
So we call the operator to restart this job from the abending step. Is there any way, we can restart a job from the same step, from where it is abended automatically. We are looking something to automate this process.
Any help is greatly appreciated... Thanks in advance...
What you described in what CA-11 from Computer Associates does for you. I would also imagine that your job scheduling software may have some capability to handle this also.
Other than that, why are these jobs not designed to be auto-restarting? By that, I mean why are they not designed to load a copy of themselves, with an appropriate RESTART statement, upon the failure of any particular step?
Joined: 13 Dec 2002 Posts: 45 Topics: 3 Location: 3rd Block from the SUN
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 10:58 am Post subject:
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<snip> ... because someone from our clients place submit these jobs,, they don't know anything other than paging us... <snip>
Those someone are none but the SysOps guys. And they sure do know what they are doing.
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<snip> Is there any capability in JCL itself, to restart from the abending step, rather than they paging us ans we logon at mid nights...????
Till date, IBM has not put in the capability in the JCL to re-start itself. And I would not think it would in the future. Its the job for the Support Analysts to analyse the abend & inform the SysOps to restart
Joined: 04 Dec 2002 Posts: 8 Topics: 3 Location: St.Louis, MO, USA
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:28 pm Post subject:
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Is there any capability in JCL itself, to restart from the abending step, rather than they paging us ans we logon at mid nights...????
At the previous shop that I was working on, they could partially achieve this by loading the restart instructions as OPC cards, right after the PROC/JCL definition.
These would look like:
%OPC, STEPNAME.RC=04,RESTART=STEPNAME %
Another way to achieve this, could be by using 'coding' in the stepname.
For example,
You could have STY001 or STN001, to indicate if the step can be a restart step or not.
This is about brining a discpline in the way the application programmers code the JCLs. This could than be automated to have the restart instructions.
Needless to state, the stepnames should be fully qualified, ie if you have a JCL that has multiple PROC calls, then the restart instruction should be PROC.STEPNAME.
I am not aware how OPC achieves this, though.
Any inputs ?? _________________ Ganti
Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 266 Topics: 1 Location: Edison, NJ USA
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 9:16 pm Post subject:
The link below may be what you're looking for if you're running a fairly current zOS system. I haven't taken the time to read through it., have fun and let us know what additional info you've found.
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