Restarting a CL batch job
After an abort, restarting a CL batch job with multiple steps can sometimes be a headache. Here's a quick workaround.
After an abort, restarting a CL batch job with multiple steps can sometimes be a headache. You could restart the job from the beginning after you correct the problem. However, if each step is long running that takes time. To solve that problem I have created a data area and after each job step I update the data area to indicate successful completion of each step. The data area then can help you find out at what step a problem occurred. Also, when you rerun the job, the steps that have completed successfully would not get rerun. The job would pick up at the step the abort occurred.
PGM /* Declarations area */ DCL &JOBSTATUS TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(8) /* Get data area */ RTVDTAARA DTAARA(JOBDATAREA) RTNVAR(&JOBSTATUS) /* Check job completion steps */ IF (&JOBSTATUS *EQ 'STEP1OK') THEN(DO) GOTO STEP2 ENDDO ELSE IF (&JOBSTATUS *EQ 'STEP2OK') (DO) GOTO STEP3 ENDDO ELSE IF (&JOBSTATUS *EQ 'STEP3OK') (DO) GOTO EOJ ENDDO STEP1: CALL PGM(PGM1) MONOMSG MSGID(CPF0000) EXEC(GOTO SEND_ERR) CHGDTAARA DTAARA(JOBDATAREA) VALUE('STEP1OK') STEP2: CALL PGM(PGM2) MONOMSG MSGID(CPF0000) EXEC(GOTO SEND_ERR) CHGDTAARA DTAARA(JOBDATAREA) VALUE('STEP2OK') STEP3: CALL PGM(PGM3) MONOMSG MSGID(CPF0000) EXEC(GOTO SEND_ERR) CHGDTAARA DTAARA(JOBDATAREA) VALUE('STEP3OK') GOTO EOJ: SEND_ERR: /* Place your error routine here */ GOTO END EOJ: /* RESET DATA AREA FOR NEXT TIME */ CHGDTAARA DTAARA(JOBDATAREA) VALUE(' ') END: ENDPGM==================================
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