How to run abended job steps?

vamseepotti · New User Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 46

Hi I have one doubt we have lakhs of jobsteps in JOB. Some steps r abended. How to run that abended jobsteps?

krbabu · Active User Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 57

Hi Vansee,
Ofcourse u have a lakh of job step. Once any of the step abended , then the sub sequent steps aren't run. So you have to restart the step with RD parameter.

mdtendulkar · Active User Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 259 Location: USA

Hello vamseepotti,

Folowing is the excerpt from the JCL User's Guide

Restarting after Abnormal Termination

If a job terminates abnormally, the checkpoint/restart facilities allow you to restart the job, as follows:

1) Automatic step restart, that is, restart by the system from the beginning of a job step.
2) Automatic checkpoint restart, that is, restart by the system from a checkpoint within a job step.
3) Deferred step restart, that is, restart at a later time from the beginning of a job step.
4) Deferred checkpoint restart, that is, restart at a later time from a checkpoint within a job step.

Restarts are controlled by:
1) RD parameters on JOB and EXEC statements. (Restart is not supported for started tasks; do not use the RD parameter on the JOB statement for a started task.)
2) Checkpoints, if written. Each time a CHKPT macro is executed, a checkpoint is written.
3) The job journal, which is only required for an automatic restart. In a JES3 system, the programmer can code a JOURNAL parameter on the JES3 //*MAIN statement to control whether JES3 creates a journal for the job.
4) In deferred restarts, a RESTART parameter on the JOB statement for the restarting job and a SYSCHK DD statement to identify the data set containing the checkpoint written in response to the CHKPT macro. (Restart is not supported for started tasks; do not use the RESTART parameter on the JOB statement for a started task.)

check out the following link for more details

MVS JCL User's Guide

Hope this helps,

Regards
Mayuresh Tendulkar