APPLICATION RESTART CONTROL active

Use this option to control conditional activation of AR/CTL if you want to install AR/CTL in a common library and to stage its activation by system (ARCID) or job step. When a job is executed, AR/CTL performs some initialization processing before interrogating this option. In certain problem situations, using this option to deactivate AR/CTL may not be sufficient to bypass the problem. You may need to take further action, such as removing the AR/CTL execution library from the STEPLIB or LNKLST concatenation.

If the program uses IMS, you may be able to use this option in an emergency when execution problems make it advisable to disable AR/CTL. If you temporarily deactivate AR/CTL for a job step that has been using AR/CTL services, make sure that the required services are provided in some other way. For example, if an application program depends on AR/CTL to determine the restart status, you might need to determine the restart status manually. Ensure correct AR/CTL processing when you reactivate AR/CTL for the application program. It is usually safe to reactivate AR/CTL after the job step has completed successfully.