Manual intervention
If BCF cannot perform a necessary function or cannot determine which function is required, BCF indicates that manual intervention is required.
BCF requests manual intervention in the following situations:
Log volume records missing
BCF found an execution control record in the REGISET, but it could not find the associated log volume record. The execution control record indicates that the batch backout process is necessary before the application program can execute. BCF needs information from the log volume records to identify the logs to use as input to the batch backout process.
Automatic Batch Backout option set to NO
BCF found an execution control record in the REGISET, and the Automatic Batch Backout option was specified as NO for current execution.
Critical REGISET error
A critical REGISET error has occurred. BCF found an execution control record in the REGISET, and this record indicates that a critical REGISET error occurred in the previous execution. The REGISET may contain invalid recovery information.
Batch Backout utility failed
Execution of the IMS Batch Backout utility failed during restart processing or the previous execution.
Log Recovery utility failed
Execution of the IMS Log Recovery utility failed during restart processing or the previous execution.
If a situation requires manual intervention, BCF sets the Manual Intervention Required flag (in the execution control record) to Y, issues message BMC44242I, and stops execution of the affected job step. Before BCF will allow you to restart the job step under BCF control, you must reset the Manual Intervention Required flag.
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