Use of the Active Job utility

This utility can be used before restart processing after a job step has been canceled (without cancel intercept support) or after a system failure. The Active Job utility can be useful when an application program encounters a problem that is not easily fixed but the databases and logs must be recovered immediately. In such a situation, this utility allows you to change the active job entry in the REGISET to indicate that any required log recovery or batch backouts functions should be performed without restarting the application. This utility also ensures that the required log data sets have been cataloged.

If you want the operator to be prompted before the execution control record is processed, specify the ASK parameter. To list the active job records found without changing their status, specify the LISTONLY parameter. In addition, you can update an execution control record to change its status from active to abended by specifying the ABENDED parameter.