Set job abend

BCF allows you to update an execution control record to change its status from active to abended.

This action prevents invalid restart processing in environments where the job entry subsystem does not prevent duplicate job name execution. BCF will not allow restart processing for a job step record that appears to be active. You must reset the status before restart processing can occur.

Resetting the status also ensures that any log data sets that should be cataloged and are necessary for restart have been cataloged before restart processing. You can reset the status by specifying Y in the Set job abend field on the Active Job Status Modification panel (see the figure in Modifying-an-execution-control-record). You can also reset the status by specifying the appropriate parameter when you execute the Active Job utility or the Automatic Restart Preparation utility.

For more information about the Active Job utility, see Use-of-the-Active-Job-utility. If you want all execution control records to be processed following an IPL, you can use the Automatic Restart Preparation utility; seeAutomatic-Restart-Preparation-utility.

 

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