Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

7.4 Restart/Recovery of Scheduled Jobs
To recover any job, its JCL is either in the staging library or can be placed
there by the RESTAGE operator command. Once it is in the staging library,
you can modify it and resubmit the job.
7.4.2 Automatic Recovery Options
When defining a job to the database, there is a field called ABEND, which can
be used to aid in automatic recovery of a job. There are four options you can
specify in this field. They include:
Option
ABORT
CONT
BACKOUT
Schedule name
Description
Indicates that successors to this job will not have
this predecessor satisfied. This is the default value.
Indicates that successors to this job are to be
handled as if the job terminated normally because
this predecessor has been satisfied.
Indicates that successors to this job will not be
posted as satisfied if this job abends. A backout job
will be submitted automatically if you specified a
value for the BACKOUT installation option.
Unicenter CA-Scheduler adds a new job tracking
record for the backout job.
Indicates that the schedule name provided is to be
processed. This is a predefined recovery schedule
that will be automatically processed should the job
abend and the abended job will follow the same
process as ABORT.
If a recovery schedule is defined, it could contain a job that executes the
CAJUCMD0 program that allows you to interrogate various job's status
through batch commands. Based on the job status, other jobs could be brought
in with the RUN, REQUEST, or ADD operator commands for recovering the
abended job. This technique is described in the preceding topic of this chapter.
When you define a recovery schedule, you should attempt to use some sort of
naming convention so that any recovery schedule can be recognized quickly.
For example, begin all recovery schedule names with RR.
Another way to be sure that jobs that need recovery do not go unnoticed is to
use the message facility. That is, you can specify up to four users to send
messages to if the job abends or fails. Users are defined on the schedule and
job message records and can be operator consoles or the Unicenter
CA-Scheduler mailbox. (See the topics Defining A Schedule Message Record
and Creating A Job Message Record in the chapter "Maintaining the Database"
for more information.) Keep in mind that JCL errors for a job are treated as if
the job failed.
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