Control-M For ZOS - 2 Getting Started Guide
Control-M For ZOS - 2 Getting Started Guide
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Version 7.0.00 of Control-M for z/OS
September 2010
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Contents 5
Displaying the Scheduling Plan for the Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Defining JOB4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Job Ordering and Job Forcing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Why Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Why the Job Did Not Run. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Adding a Missing Condition in the Why Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
IOA Conditions/Resources Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Filtering the IOA Conditions/Resources Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Adding a Condition or Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
A Second Look at the Why Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Zoom Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Freeing a Held Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Recommended Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Contents 7
Additional Points About User Daily Jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Job Ordering Through Online Utility CTMJOBRQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Other Methods of Job Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Recommended Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Index 249
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10 Control-M for z/OS Getting Started Guide
Figures
Control-M Scheduling Definition Facility - Entry Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Control-M Scheduling Definition Facility - Entry Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Job Scheduling Definition Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Job Scheduling Definition Screen Showing Completed Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Job List Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Job List Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Confirm Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Job Order Messages Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Control-M Active Environment Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Show Screen Filter Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Filtered Display in the Active Environment Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Confirmation Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Log Option in the Active Environment Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Control-M Log Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Job Order Execution History Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Sysout Viewing Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Delete Option in the Active Environment Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Job List Screen Exit Option Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Control-M Table List Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Job List Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Control-M Scheduling Definition Facility - Entry Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Job Scheduling Definition Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Option P (PLN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Job Scheduling Plan Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Job Scheduling Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Job Scheduling Definition for job IDJOB4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Job List Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Job List Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Why Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Confirmation Window for Adding Condition in Why Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
IOA Conditions/Resources Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Add Resources Window in IOA Conditions/Resources Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Zoom Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Job Scheduling Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Confirm Restart Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Restart Step List Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
SMART Table Entity Scheduling Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Basic Scheduling Parameter Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Post-Processing Parameter Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Runtime Scheduling Parameter Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Figures 11
Job Scheduling Definition for IDJOB4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Job List Screen for a SMART Table Entity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Sysout for Job IDJOB6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
AutoEdit Simulation Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
AutoEdit Simulation Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Show Screen Filter Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Active Environment Screen Display Filters Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Display Type A (All Fields) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Sysout Viewing Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Table Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
IOA Calendar Definition Facility - Entry Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
IOA Calendar Definition Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Year List Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
CMEM Rule Definition Facility – Entry Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
CMEM Rule Definition Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
CMEM Rule List Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
CMEM Exit Option Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Control-M CMEM Order Messages Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Tables 13
14 Control-M for z/OS Getting Started Guide
About This Guide
This guide describes how to begin using Control-M to actively control jobs in the
production environment.
■ a list of recommended source material on the topics that were covered in the
chapter
The exercises in this guide are designed to be progressive, with each exercise building
on what was learned in a previous exercise. The chapters are organized the same
way, with each building sequentially upon earlier material. A brief explanation of
each chapter is shown below.
This chapter introduces you to the Control-M Scheduling Definition facility and the
Active Environment. It shows you the Scheduling Definition facility screens, the
Active Environment screen, and some of the screens accessible from the Active
Environment screen. In this chapter you will create two simple job scheduling
definitions, and a dependency between them. You will then order these jobs, and
observe and intervene in their processing.
This chapter provides a more detailed look at the parameters of the job scheduling
definition, and introduces additional functionality in the Active Environment.
This chapter shows you how to define Control-M/Restart parameters in the job
scheduling definition, and how to intervene in the restart process when desired.
This chapter introduces you to SMART Table scheduling, and shows you how to
define jobs in SMART Table.
This chapter introduces you to the AutoEdit facility, and has you use AutoEdit terms
in both the JCL and in the job scheduling definition. In this chapter you will learn
about and use system variables, local user defined variables, global variables,
AutoEdit functions, and control statements.
This chapter takes you through features, facilities, and screens of the Active
Environment that were not covered in the earlier chapters.
This chapter instructs you in various ways of ordering jobs, and provides a detailed
look at the use of the CTMJOB utility and User Daily jobs.
As the final chapter in this guide, this chapter describes various Control-M and IOA
facilities that were not covered in previous chapters. Included are the IOA Calendar
facility, CMEM Event Management facility, and several useful utilities.
This appendix lists all preparations that are necessary before you can perform the
exercises in each chapter of this guide. It provides sample JCLs for those
preparations, many of which involve the creation of JCL members.
It is entirely possible that other users will perform these exercises at the same time as
you. To ensure that the someone else’s exercises do not impact your exercises, you
should use your unique user identifier as a prefix to all named components. In the
text and screen examples in this guide, ID or id are used to indicate where your
unique user identifier should be entered.
While it is not absolutely essential that you use your user ID as the unique prefix, it is
absolutely essential that you consistently use the same brief, unique prefix of some
sort if others will perform these exercises within the same time frame as you.
Keys that appear on the standard keyboard are identified in boldface, for example,
Enter, Shift, Ctrl+S (a key combination), or Ctrl S (a key sequence).
WARNING
The commands, instructions, procedures, and syntax illustrated in this guide presume that the
keyboards at your site are mapped in accordance with the EBCDIC character set. Certain
special characters are referred to in this documentation, and you must ensure that your
keyboard enables you to generate accurate EBCDIC hex codes. This is particularly true on
keyboards that have been adapted to show local or national symbols. You should verify that
$ is mapped to x'5B'
# is mapped to x'7B'
@ is mapped to x'7C'
If you have any questions about whether your keyboard is properly mapped, contact your
system administrator.
Preconfigured PFKeys
■ only the name of the command, such as, enter the END command
■ only the PF keys, such as, press PF03/PF15
■ or both, such as, press PF03/PF15, or enter the END command
Most screens contain a command line, which is primarily used to identify a single
field where commands, or options, or both, are to be entered. These fields are usually
designated COMMAND, but they are occasionally identified as COMMAND/OPT or
COMMAND/OPTION.
Option field headings appear in many screens. These headings sometimes appear in
the screen examples as OPTION, or OPT, or O.
User Entries
In situations where you are instructed to enter characters using the keyboard, the
specific characters to be entered are shown in this UPPERCASE BOLD text, for
example, type EXITNAME.
Syntax statements
■ A vertical bar ( | ) separating items indicates that you must choose one item. In the
following example, you would choose a, b, or c:
a | b| c
■ An ellipsis ( . . . ) indicates that you can repeat the preceding item or items as many
times as necessary.
■ Square brackets ( [ ] ) around an item indicate that the item is optional. If square
brackets ( [ ] ) are around a group of items, this indicates that the item is optional,
and you may choose to implement any single item in the group. Square brackets
can open ( [ ) and close ( ] ) on the same line of text, or may begin on one line of text
and end, with the choices being stacked, one or more lines later.
■ Braces ({ }) around a group of items indicates that the item is mandatory, and you
must choose to implement a single item in the group. Braces can open ( { ) and
close ( } ) on the same line of text, or may begin on one line of text and end, with the
choices being stacked, one or more lines later.
Screen Characters
■ calls, such as
CALL ’CBLTDLI’
Variables
Special elements
NOTE
Notes provide additional information about the current subject.
WARNING
Warnings alert you to situations that can cause problems, such as loss of data, if you do not
follow instructions carefully.
Help Information
Help information is readily available while using Control-M. Help screens can be
accessed by using the HELP command by typing HELP in the COMMAND line or by
pressing PF01/PF13 from any Control-M screen.
Use standard scrolling conventions (PF08/PF20 and PF07/PF19) to scroll forward and
backward through the help information. To return to the original screen, use the END
command (PF03/PF15).
Related Publications
Control-M for z/OS Planning and Implementation Guide
Practical guide for determining implementation objectives and, for planning and
performing the implementation of Control-M
Detailed explanation of the base Control-M for z/OS product, an system that
manages and automates the setup, scheduling and execution of jobs in the z/OS data
center
Comprehensive listing and explanation of all INCONTROL and IOA messages and
codes
Describes utilities designed to perform specific administrative tasks that are available
to INCONTROL products
1
1 Introduction to Control-M
This chapter includes the following topics:
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Main Components of Control-M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Online Facility Primary Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Introduction to the Scheduling Definition Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Introduction to the Active Environment Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Toggling Between Display of Commands and Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Filtering the Active Environment Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Confirming a Job Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Checking the Log for the Job from the Active Environment Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Checking the Sysout for the Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Holding and Deleting Active Environment Screen Job Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Return to the Scheduling Definition Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Saving Job Scheduling Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Selecting a Table from the Table List Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Formats of the Job List Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Exiting the Online Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Recommended Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Introduction to Control-M 23
Overview
Overview
Control-M is an automated production control and scheduling system that manages
and automates the setup, scheduling and execution of jobs in the z/OS data center.
The Control-M for z/OS Getting Started Guide provides you with an introduction to the
functionality of Control-M, and teaches you how to use Control-M, one step at a time,
with each step building upon what was learned in the previous step. Of necessity, the
explanations of topics in this book are not comprehensive. For comprehensive
explanations of topics, you should refer to the relevant guide, such as the Control-M
for z/OS User Guide, INCONTROL for z/OS Administrator Guide, and so on.
The first chapter of the Control-M for z/OS User Guide provides an introduction to
Control-M. You might find it useful to read that chapter before using this guide;
however, you can still easily use this guide without having read that chapter in the
User Guide.
Before you are introduced to the main components of Control-M, you should prepare
the jobs that you will need in order to perform the exercises in this chapter.
Preparations
Create the JCL for two trivial jobs, identified throughout this guide as IDJOB1 and
IDJOB2. Define the jobs to execute IEFBR14. For purposes of this guide, identify the
JCL library as CTM.TEST.JCL.
1. You must tell Control-M how you want job processing handled.
Job scheduling and processing instructions are provided through the Scheduling
Definition facility, a main component of Control-M.
You specify these instructions in job scheduling definitions that you define in the
Job Scheduling Definition screen. Each job scheduling definition must be defined
only once; it can then be used as often as needed. Job scheduling definitions are
stored in tables, or members, in a scheduling library.
2. Using the instructions you provided in the job scheduling definitions, Control-M
automatically tracks and controls the setup, scheduling, and execution of the job.
Control-M provides you with constant feedback on job processing, and enables
you to manually intervene in the processing of jobs, through a series of screens.
“Tracking and Control facility” is a general term that applies to the screens that
provide feedback on job processing, and enable manual intervention. The main
screen in this facility is the Active Environment screen, which provides status and
other information for currently scheduled and recently completed jobs, and
accepts your commands and instructions. The Active Environment screen also acts
as a gateway to other screens in the Tracking and Control facility.
You will take a first look at these components by doing the following in your first set
of exercises:
■ You will use the Scheduling Definition facility to create job scheduling definitions
for the two trivial jobs you just defined.
— You will make submission of the first job dependent on a manual intervention
performed in the Active Environment screen.
■ You will observe the results in the Active Environments screen. Along the way,
you will become familiar with several commands, options and windows in the
Active Environment screen. You will also become familiar with the Control-M Log
screen.
To do this, enter the IOA Online facility, take a look at the main components of
Control-M, and perform the exercises.
1 Request Option 2 from the IOA Primary Option menu, to access the Scheduling
Definition facility.
You can now begin defining the job scheduling definition for IDJOB1.
2 Fill in the LIBRARY, TABLE, and JOB name fields in the entry panel. The request
appears similar to Figure 2.
After entering the entry panel request, the Job Scheduling Definition screen is
displayed. A full job scheduling definition, which contains more lines than your
screen can display, is illustrated in Figure 3 on page 28.
Note that the first line in the screen, which is displayed above the COMMAND line,
contains the same information about the job that you provided in the entry panel.
The Job Scheduling Definition screen is divided into sections, with each section
separated from another by a line of equal signs (= =). Later, you will learn more about
these sections and the fields they contain. The following table describes the fields of
the Job Scheduling Definition screen that you will complete during these exercises.
4 Exit the Job Scheduling Definition screen. The Job List screen is displayed.
OPTIONS S SEL D DEL I INS O ORDER F FORCE J JCL C COPY P PLN T JOBSTAT 15.37.39
The format of the Job List screen may be different than the format indicated in the
screen example shown above. The different formats of the Job List screen will be
discussed later in this chapter. The following procedure will ensure that you are
working with the desired format.
The Job List screen has the same format as the screen example shown above.
The Job List screen contains the list of jobs in the table. In this case, since you
created a new table and only one job, there is only one job (IDJOB1) in the list.
Notice that the description you provided in the job scheduling definition appears
next to the job name in the Job List screen. Providing useful identifying
information in the DESC field of the job scheduling definition can help you with
job identification in the Job List screen.
You will now create the job scheduling definition for IDJOB2. You could do this
much the same way that you created IDJOB1, that is, by returning to the entry
panel and there specifying the name IDJOB2. But instead, you will create the job
from the Job List screen.
6 Type I (Insert) in the OPT (Option) field to the left of the entry for IDJOB1, and
press Enter.
The Job Scheduling Definition screen is displayed. When you create a new job using
the I (Insert) option in the Job List screen, the newly created job contains most of
values defined in the job by which you specified the I option. Only the MEMNAME,
DOCMEM, and DESCRIPTION values are not carried over; instead, these fields are
left blank.
7 Type JOB2 in the MEMNAME field. The DOCMEM field will automatically be
filled in with the same value. Leave the DESC field blank.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
MEMNAME IDJOB2 MEMLIB CTM.TEST.JOBLIB
OWNER M44 TASKTYPE JOB PREVENT-NCT2 Y DFLT N
APPL GROUP IDGRP1
DESC
OVERLIB STAT CAL
SCHENV SYSTEM ID NJE NODE
SET VAR
CTB STEP AT NAME TYPE
DOCMEM IDJOB2 DOCLIB
===========================================================================
8 In the IN field, define the same value you had defined as the OUT value in JOB1
(IDJOB1-ENDED-OK ODAT). You should press Tab before typing ODAT, as you
did in IDJOB1. The + from the OUT value is not specified. After defining the IN
value, delete the Y from the CONFIRM field.
===========================================================================
IN IDJOB1-ENDED-OK ODAT
CONTROL
RESOURCE
PIPE
FROM TIME + DAYS UNTIL TIME + DAYS
DUE OUT TIME + DAYS PRIORITY 00 SAC CONFIRM
TIME ZONE:
===========================================================================
9 Change the plus sign (+) to a minus sign (-) in the OUT statement.
===========================================================================
OUT IDJOB1-ENDED-OK ODAT -
AUTO-ARCHIVE SYSDB MAXDAYS MAXRUNS
The IN and the OUT fields are used for specifying conditions. These conditions can
be used to create job dependencies.
Specifying the same condition as an OUT condition with a minus sign in IDJOB2
removes the condition once IDJOB2 has successfully ended. This ensures that an old
occurrence of the condition will not satisfy the IN criteria.
Note also that every condition has an associated date value. This can be an explicitly
defined date, such as 0909, or a valid keyword value that represents a date. ODAT is a
keyword value that defaults to the current original scheduling date of the job. The
original scheduling date, and other date concepts, are discussed in Chapter 5,
“AutoEdit and JCL.”
10 Exit the job scheduling definition for IDJOB2. The Job List screen is displayed.
IDJOB2 now appears in the list, but since you did not define a description for it, no
description appears for the job.
OPTIONS S SEL D DEL I INS O ORDER F FORCE J JCL C COPY P PLN T JOBSTAT 14.58.14
Notice the options at the bottom of the Job List screen. You will now use one of them,
the O (Order) option, to order these two jobs.
11 Request option O (Order) in the OPT field for both IDJOB1 and IDJOB2.
For each job ordered, the Job Order Messages screen with messages similar to the
following will be displayed:
13 Press PF03/PF15 or enter the END command to exit the Job Order Messages screen
each time it is displayed.
You can now enter the Active Environment screen and check the results of the job
orders. You do not have to return to the IOA Primary Option Menu to request
Option 3, the Active Environment screen. Instead, by preceding an option with an
equal sign (=), you can move directly there from where you are.
This screen is most probably displaying a number of jobs from your site that are not
relevant to these exercises. Soon, you will filter the display so that only the relevant
jobs are displayed. But first, look at the list of available commands or options at the
bottom of the screen.
Commands: OPt DIsplay Show HIstory RBal REFresh Auto Jobstat SHPF Note Table
OPt command toggles between Commands and Options display 15.15.
The first command listed is OPt, and the bottom line actually explains that command
OPt can be used to toggle between the command display and the option display.
15 Enter OPT in the COMMAND field to toggle to the option display. The list of
available options is displayed at the bottom of the screen.
Opt: ? Why L Log H Hold Z Zoom R Rerun A Activate O Force OK V View Sysout
N Net D Del F Free S Stat G Group U Undelete J JCL Edit C Confirm 15.46.0
16 Again, enter OPT in the COMMAND field to redisplay the list of available
commands at the bottom of the screen.
Commands: OPt DIsplay Show HIstory RBal REFresh Auto Jobstat SHPF Note Table
OPt command toggles between Commands and Options display 15.15.48
One or the other of the two lists will be particularly relevant for different steps, and
you will be instructed, as necessary, to display the appropriate screen. Now that
the Command display appears, notice the SHOW command. You will be using the
SHOW command in the next set of steps.
17 Enter SHOW in the COMMAND field. The Show Screen Filter window is
displayed.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
OPt command toggles between Commands and Options display 11.07.49
The Show Screen Filter window enables you to filter the display based on certain
fields and values. The following steps explain what you need to know in order to
create the filter for use in these exercises. Filtering is explained in greater detail in “A
Closer Look At Filters” on page 169.
18 Specify that you want to create and save a filter called IDGS by entering IDGS in
the Filter field, and Y in the Save field. Specify a description for the filter by typing
GS-EXERCISES in the Desc field.
19 Define the filtering criteria by specifying IDGRP in the Group field. The filter
appears as shown below:
The Group field works on a prefix basis. By assigning the IDGRP prefix value, the
filter will only display jobs whose Group name begins with IDGRP. This means
only the current jobs in group IDGRP1. In later chapters, it will also display jobs
belonging to groups idGRP2, idGRP3, and so on.
20 Press Enter to exit the window. The Active Environment now displays only IDJOB1
and IDJOB2.
■ A data line for each job order displays information about the job. This information
includes the job name, job owner and the job order date (ODATE), as well as other
information.
■ the status of each job order is displayed in the Status field for each data line.
When you examine the status of these jobs you will see the following:
Wait Confirmation (for schedule) status is displayed because you defined this job to
require job confirmation.
To confirm that JOB1 should be submitted you need to enter the appropriate option
in the O (option) field by the job name.
Opt: ? Why L Log H Hold Z Zoom R Rerun A Activate O Force OK V View Sysout
N Net D Del F Free S Stat G Group U Undelete J JCL Edit C Confirm 20.59.34
You can now see that to confirm the scheduling of a job, you should enter line
command C (Confirm).
The Status field display changes for each of the two jobs, as they are executed.
If you press Enter quickly enough, you will note the following progression:
Checking the Log for the Job from the Active Environment
Screen
You can use the L (Log) option of the Active Environment screen to check the job log
for these jobs. The log is then displayed in the Control-M Log screen. If this option is
specified for multiple jobs in the Active Environment screen, the log displays will be
stacked. Each time PF03/PF15 is pressed, the next log in the stack is displayed, until all
logs have been displayed.
25 Type L (Log) in the O (Option) field to the left of IDJOB1 and IDJOB2, and then
press Enter. The log for IDJOB1 is displayed.
You can see the clear progression of messages that were generated as the job executed
under the control of Control-M. You can scroll the display forward to see additional
lines.
26 Press PF03/PF15.
To do so, you must first specify option V (View Sysout) for the job, in the Active
Environment screen. This option displays the Job Order Execution History screen,
which, as its name indicates, displays the execution history of the job. From the list of
job executions, you can decide the job for which you want to view the Sysout.
To see the Sysout of a particular run of the job, specify option S (Select) next to the
specific job execution in the Job Order Execution History screen. The sysout for the
job is then displayed in the Sysout Viewing screen.
NOTE
If Control-M/Restart is not operational at your site, or if SYSDATA is not archived, skip the
remaining exercises in this section, and proceed to the topic “Holding and Deleting Active
Environment Screen Job Orders” below.
Enter option V for job IDJOB1 to check the sysout of job IDJOB1.
The Job Order Execution History screen, and the Sysout Viewing screen shown
below, are discussed in Chapter 6, “Navigating The Active Environment.”
28 Enter option S for the job run of IDJOB1 to request the desired Sysout.
The Sysout Viewing screen is displayed. You can scroll down and up, and right
and left, through the Sysout.
29 Exit the Sysout Viewing screen, and then exit the Job Order Execution History
screen, to the Active Environment screen.
30 Type D (Delete) in the O (Option) field for both jobs, as shown below, and press
Enter.
The jobs are not deleted. Instead, a message appears at the top of the screen, as shown
below:
CTM653E CANNOT DELETE TASK IDJOB1 ODATE 020201 - NOT HELD UP <D> - (3)
COMMAND ===> SCROLL ==> CRSR
O Name Owner Odate Jobname JobID Typ ----------- Status ------------
D IDJOB1 ID 020201 M21 /24861 JOB Ended "OK"
D IDJOB2 ID 020201 M21 /24866 JOB Ended "OK"
========= >>>>>>>>>>>>> Bottom of Jobs List <<<<<<<<<<<<< ========
The message, CTM653E CANNOT DELETE TASK IDJOB1 ODATE 020201 - NOT
HELD, indicates that the first requested deletion, that of job IDJOB1, could not be
performed because the job is not Held. In fact, any action that affects a job order, or
the status of a job order, cannot be performed until the job order is place in Held
status. To hold a job order, specify option H (Hold).
31 Replace the D option by each of the jobs with an H option and press Enter to place
the jobs in Held status.
The status of each job order changes to Requested Held Ended “OK”, and messages
at the top of the screen indicate the change. The last issued message for IDJOB2
remains displayed at the top of the screen.
CTM659I HOLD OF TASK IDJOB2 GROUP "IDGRP1 " ODATE 020201 PERFORMED - (3)
COMMAND ===> SCROLL ==> CRSR
O Name Owner Odate Jobname JobID Typ ----------- Status ------------
IDJOB1 ID 020201 M21 /24861 JOB Requested Held Ended "OK"
IDJOB2 ID 020201 M21 /24866 JOB Requested Held Ended "OK"
========= >>>>>>>>>>>>> Bottom of Jobs List <<<<<<<<<<<<< ========
The status of each job now changes to Held Ended “OK”, and the message
disappears.
Messages at the top of the screen indicate that the jobs orders are deleted, and the
last issued message for IDJOB2 remains displayed. The job orders no longer
appear in the screen.
CTM659I DELETE OF TASK IDJOB2 GROUP "IDGRP1 " ODATE 020201 PERFORMED (3)
COMMAND ===> SCROLL ==> CRSR
O Name Owner Odate Jobname JobID Typ ----------- Status ------------
========= >>>>>>>>>>>>> Bottom of Jobs List <<<<<<<<<<<<< ========
Do not confuse deleting a job order from the Active Environment screen with
deleting a job scheduling definition from the Job List screen. Deleting the job order
impacts only that order. The job scheduling definition itself remains unaffected
and can be ordered again. If you delete a job scheduling definition from the Job
List screen, the job scheduling definition itself is gone, and the job can no longer be
ordered from the table.
You can now save the job scheduling definitions. To do that you must first return to
the Scheduling Definition facility.
The Exit option window is displayed. This window prompts whether you want to
save the job scheduling definitions you created.
OPTIONS S SEL D DEL I INS O ORDER F FORCE J JCL C COPY P PLN T JOBSTAT 16.22.13
The LIBRARY and TABLE fields indicate the library and table in which the job
scheduling definitions were defined. The specified values can be modified, for
example, to save the job scheduling definitions in a different table.
The window also contains SAVE and CREATE fields. The Exit Option window
enables you to perform many actions.
■ To create a new table in a library and save the job scheduling definitions in that
table, specify Y (Yes) in the CREATE field of the window, leaving the SAVE field
blank, and exit the window.
Because you specified a new table name in the entry panel—one that had not
previously existed—you are now going to permanently create that table as well.
Therefore, the values you entered in this chapter are the values that you will use.
If you changed the library and table fields of the window to reflect a currently non-
existing table, you would also use these values.
■ To cancel the changes you made, specify N (No) in the both the SAVE and
CREATE fields of the window, and exit the window.
■ To close the Exit Option window and remain in the Job List screen, with the
changes remaining in memory, press PF04/PF16 to execute the RESET command.
37 Specify Y in the CREATE field and leave the SAVE field blank.
The new table is created and the job scheduling definitions are saved in the table.
The Entry Panel is displayed.
NOTE
Normally, when you exit the Job List screen, the Table List screen is displayed. However, if
the Table List screen was bypassed when you entered the Scheduling Definition facility,
that is, if you specified a TABLE value in the entry panel, which you did, the Table List
screen is not displayed upon exiting the Job List screen; instead, the Entry Panel is
displayed.
38 Ensure that correct library name is entered in the LIBRARY field of the entry panel
and that the TABLE field is blank.
The Table List screen is displayed. Unless you are using a library dedicated to this
set of exercises, other table names appear in the Table list screen.
Among the options of the Table List screen are the options S (Select) and B (Browse).
Both these options bring you to the Job List screen, where the list of jobs in the table
are displayed, but each displays the Job List screen in a different mode:
■ The Select option displays the Job List screen in Edit mode. When you then select a
job from the Job List screen, you can edit and update the job scheduling definition.
■ The Browse option displays the Job List screen in Browse mode. When you then
select a job from the Job List screen, the job scheduling definition can be viewed,
but it cannot be edited or updated.
You will not edit the job scheduling definition at this point, so use the B (Browse)
option.
39 Either page down until the table name is visible, or perform an ISPF LOCATE to
locate your table. Ensure that the cursor is in the OPTION field for your table.
The Job List screen is displayed in Browse mode. The screen displays the two defined
jobs in your table.
OPTIONS S SEL D DEL I INS O ORDER F FORCE J JCL C COPY P PLN T JOBSTAT 15.37.39
From the Job List screen, you can now use the S (Select) option to browse either the
IDJOB1 or the IDJOB2 job scheduling definition in the table.
In addition to the screen shown above, there are other possible formats of the Job List
screen.
Alternate between specifying the DATA, STAT, and DESC commands in the
COMMAND field of the Job List screen, and note the differences in the display
following the entry of each command. Ensure that the last command you enter is
DESC, because that is the format you are using in the exercises in this guide.
Note that whichever format you use, the actual jobs listed in the screen, that is, jobs
IDJOB1 and IDJOB2, remain the same. The format of the Job List screen does not
affect which jobs are listed. It only affects the accompanying data that is displayed for
those jobs.
Leave the online facility by exiting one screen at a time, until you have exited the
entire online facility.
Review
In this chapter you
— Entry Panel
— Table List screen
— Job List screen
— Job Scheduling Definition screen
■ created a job scheduling definition directly from the Entry panel, and then created
a second job scheduling definition by using the I (Insert) option in the Job List
screen
■ learned about and utilized the following job scheduling definition fields while
creating your job scheduling definitions
— MEMNAME
— MEMLIB
— GROUP
— DESC
— DAYS
— IN
— CONFIRM
— OUT
■ used IN and OUT conditions to create a dependency between the two jobs
■ displayed the Active Environment screen, and toggled between display of the list
of commands and the list of options at the bottom of the screen
■ used the L (Log) option in the Active Environment screen to display the message
log for the job orders in the Control-M Log screen
■ used the V option to display the Job Order Execution History screen and from
there displayed the Sysout of a job execution in the Sysout Viewing screen
■ used the H (Hold) option so that you could delete job orders from the Active
Environment screen
■ used the D (Delete) option in the Active Environment screen to delete the job
orders when they were no longer needed
■ used the Exit Option window of the Job List screen to create a new table and save
your two job scheduling definitions in the table
■ learned the difference between the S (Select) and B (Browse) options of the Table
List screen
■ exited the Online facility by working your way up the screen hierarchy as you
exited individual screens
Recommended Reading
Before continuing with the next chapter, you should read the following in the
Control-M for z/OS User Guide
In Chapter 1
In Chapter 2
■ Description of the layout of the Job Scheduling Definition screen and the fields in
the screen
■ Introduction to the Active Environment screen and the description of its fields
In Chapter 3
Detailed descriptions of the parameters you have already used: CONFIRM, DAYS, DESC,
GROUP, IN, MEMLIB, MEMNAME, OUT
NOTE
The description of the parameter DAYS is quite detailed. Read it for a general understanding
of parameter usage and possible parameter formats, without trying to memorize all the detail.
For now, you can skip the information related to subparameters DCAL and AND/OR.
2
Scheduling Definition and Manual
2
Intervention
This chapter includes the following topics:
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Sections of the Job Scheduling Definition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
General Parameters Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Basis Scheduling Parameters Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Runtime Scheduling Parameters Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Post-Processing Parameters Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Conditions, Date Qualifiers, and Job Dependencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Displaying the Scheduling Plan for the Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Defining JOB4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Job Ordering and Job Forcing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Why Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Why the Job Did Not Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Adding a Missing Condition in the Why Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
IOA Conditions/Resources Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Filtering the IOA Conditions/Resources Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Adding a Condition or Resource. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
A Second Look at the Why Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Zoom Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Freeing a Held Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Recommended Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Overview
In the previous chapter, you were introduced to the Scheduling Definition Facility
and the Active Environment screen. In this chapter, you will
■ take a much closer look at the job scheduling definition screen, the sections into
which it is divided, and the many of the fields of those sections, including a focus
on
■ use the Why screen, IOA Conditions/Resources screen, and the Zoom screen to
intervene when a job is not submitted
Preparations
In this chapter, you are going to create two new jobs and their job scheduling
definitions. In the last chapter, you used the names IDJOB1 and IDJOB2. In this
chapter, you will use the names IDJOB3 and IDJOB4, respectively. (You will use the
same library and table that you used in the last chapter.)
For the JCL of IDJOB4, use a copy of the same trivial JCL that you used for IDJOB1 &
IDJOB2—that is, a job that does basically nothing, but ends successfully.
For IDJOB3, you need a JCL that will result in an error condition. For this purpose,
you will use a test utility in which you indicate the desired error return code.
■ Create trivial job IDJOB3 to run utility TESTUTIL and define it to return a
condition code of C0008.
2 Enter your library and table names in the LIBRARY and TABLE fields, and IDJOB3
in the JOB field. The request appears as shown below:
To familiarize yourself with several more fields in these sections, you will fill in the
job scheduling definition for IDJOB3. To do this, you must first outline the type of
processing you expect for IDJOB3, which requires that you assume the following:
■ IDJOB3 should be submitted only if the previous execution of the job (during the
previous month) ended OK.
— 1 tape drive
— 5 units of a CPU resource called IDCPOWER:
■ IDJOB3 should be submitted from sometime between the hours of 11:00 p.m. on
Friday night and 4:00 a.m. on Saturday Morning.
■ If IDJOB3 ends OK, the appropriate reports are generated by the application.
■ If the budget for IDJOB3, as defined in the application, was exceeded, the job
returns a condition code of C0008 or above, depending on the amount by which
the budget was exceeded, and the job should end NOTOK.
■ If IDJOB3 ends NOTOK, that is, if it has a condition code of C00088 or higher, the
following should occur:
You can now fill in the job scheduling definition of IDJOB3. Note that fields are
described only briefly in the following sections, and that not all fields are discussed.
Detailed descriptions for all fields of the Job Scheduling Definition screen are
discussed in the Control-M for z/OS User Guide.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
MEMNAME IDJOB3 MEMLIB
OWNER ID TASKTYPE JOB PREVENT-NCT2 DFLT N
APPL GROUP
DESC
OVERLIB STAT CAL
SCHENV SYSTEM ID NJE NODE
SET VAR
CTB STEP AT NAME TYPE
DOCMEM IDJOB1 DOCLIB
===========================================================================
The General parameters, some of which you have seen earlier, provide basic
information about the job, and are shown in the following table.
3 Specify the name of your test JCL library in the MEMLIB field
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
MEMNAME IDJOB3 MEMLIB CTM.TEST.JCL
OWNER ID TASKTYPE JOB PREVENT-NCT2 DFLT N
APPL GROUP IDGRP2
DESC FISCAL RESULTS ON LAST FRIDAY OF MONTH
OVERLIB STAT CAL
SCHENV SYSTEM ID NJE NODE
SET VAR
CTB STEP AT NAME TYPE
DOCMEM IDJOB3 DOCLIB
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
DAYS DCAL
AND/OR
WDAYS WCAL
MONTHS 1- Y 2- Y 3- Y 4- Y 5- Y 6- Y 7- Y 8- Y 9- Y 10- Y 11- Y 12- Y
DATES
CONFCAL RETRO N MAXWAIT 00 D-CAT
MINIMUM PDS
DEFINITION ACTIVE FROM UNTIL
===========================================================================
These basic scheduling parameters determine on what day the job is scheduled,
specifically, on what days the job becomes a candidate for execution. Scheduling days
can be expressed in many ways, according to need. Several of the basic scheduling
parameters are explained in the following table:
For months in which a job should be scheduled, that is, months with
a Y value, the job is scheduled on those days determined by the
DAYS and/or WDAYS values.
DATES Specific dates on which to schedule the job. Format is mmdd or
ddmm, depending on the site standard. For example, a DATES value
of 0505 schedules the job on the 5th of May.
Several examples of how these parameters might be used are shown below.
===========================================================================
DAYS 01,15 DCAL
AND/OR
WDAYS WCAL
MONTHS 1- Y 2- Y 3- Y 4- Y 5- Y 6- Y 7- Y 8- Y 9- Y 10- Y 11- Y 12- Y
DATES
CONFCAL RETRO N MAXWAIT 00 D-CAT
MINIMUM PDS
DEFINITION ACTIVE FROM UNTIL
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
DAYS DCAL
AND/OR
WDAYS WCAL
MONTHS 1- Y 2- Y 3- Y 4- Y 5- Y 6- Y 7- Y 8- Y 9- Y 10- Y 11- Y 12- Y
DATES 0331 0630 0930 1231
CONFCAL RETRO N MAXWAIT 00 D-CAT
MINIMUM PDS
DEFINITION ACTIVE FROM UNTIL
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
DAYS DCAL
AND/OR
WDAYS 3 WCAL
MONTHS 1- N 2- N 3- N 4- N 5- N 6- Y 7- N 8- N 9- N 10- N 11- N 12- N
DATES
CONFCAL RETRO N MAXWAIT 00 D-CAT
MINIMUM PDS
DEFINITION ACTIVE FROM UNTIL
===========================================================================
In your job scheduling definition, you want to schedule the job on the last Friday of
the month. For this you need to know that in the DAYS parameter, a value of L1 means
the last day of the month, L2 is the second to the last day of the month, and so on.
NOTE
This example assumes your site-defined start of week is Monday. If the start of week is
defined as Sunday, use a WDAYS value of 6 instead of 5. If you do not know the site-
defined start of week, it does not really matter which value you use in this exercise.
But to use this parameter successfully in your real job scheduling definitions, you need to
know, and should find out from your INCONTROL administrator, your site-defined start
of week.
9 Make no changes to the MONTHS values, because they are correctly set to Y (Yes)
for all months.
===========================================================================
DAYS L1,L2,L3,L4,L5,L6,L7 DCAL
AND/OR A
WDAYS 5 WCAL
MONTHS 1- Y 2- Y 3- Y 4- Y 5- Y 6- Y 7- Y 8- Y 9- Y 10- Y 11- Y 12- Y
DATES
CONFCAL RETRO N MAXWAIT 00 D-CAT
MINIMUM PDS
DEFINITION ACTIVE FROM UNTIL
===========================================================================
■ The values of the DAYS parameter limits the scheduling to the last week of the
month.
■ The A (And) value in the AND/OR field requires that both sets of criteria be
satisfied. This limits the scheduling to the last Friday in the last week of the month.
■ The Y (Yes) value for all months ensures that the scheduling on the last Friday of
the month will occur every month.
===========================================================================
IN
CONTROL
RESOURCE
PIPE
FROM TIME + DAYS UNTIL TIME + DAYS
DUE OUT TIME + DAYS PRIORITY SAC CONFIRM
TIME ZONE:
===========================================================================
NOTE
The PIPE parameter is only displayed if MAINVIEW Batch Optimizer (MVBO) is installed at
your site.
The Runtime Scheduling parameters define runtime criteria that must be satisfied
before the job can be submitted. You have already seen the IN parameter and
CONFIRM parameters. Table 6 explains several of the Runtime Scheduling parameters.
■ E – Exclusive
■ S – Shared
For example, this parameter can be used to specify that two tape
drives are required by the job. Control-M does not submit that job
until two tape drives are available and reserved for that job.
You had previously determined the following submission criteria for the job:
■ The job can be submitted only if the previous month’s execution of the job ended
OK.
— 1 tape drive
— 5 units of CPU
■ The job must be submitted between the hours of 11:00 p.m. (Friday) and 4:00 a.m.
(Saturday).
11 Press Tab after specifying the condition name, to place the cursor in the DATE
field.
When you define post-processing parameters, you will see that when the job ends
OK this same IN condition is added, but with a date of ODAT.
14 Press Tab after specifying the resource name to place the cursor in the QUANTITY
field.
Two resources can be specified on a single line. Once you specify the quantity of
the first resource, the cursor automatically tabs over to the RESOURCE-NAME
field for the second resource.
Once you have filled in two resources on the resource line, an additional resource
line is opened to enable you to specify more resources.
17 In the TIME FROM field, specify 2300. In the UNTIL field specify 0400.
19 In the CONFIRM field, which you defined in the previous exercise, delete the Y
value.
===========================================================================
IN IDJOB3-ENDED-OK PREV
CONTROL
RESOURCE IDTAPE-DRIVE 0001 IDCPOWER 0005
PIPE
FROM TIME 2300 + DAYS UNTIL TIME 0400 + DAYS
DUE OUT TIME + DAYS PRIORITY *5 SAC CONFIRM
TIME ZONE:
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
OUT
AUTO-ARCHIVE SYSDB MAXDAYS MAXRUNS
RETENTION: # OF DAYS TO KEEP # OF GENERATIONS TO KEEP
SYSOUT OP (C,D,F,N,R) FROM
MAXRERUN RERUNMEM INTERVAL FROM
STEP RANGE FR (PGM.PROC) . TO .
ON PGMST PROCST CODES A/O
DO
SHOUT WHEN TIME + DAYS TO URGN
MS
======= >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> END OF SCHEDULING PARAMETERS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< =====
The OUT parameter has already been discussed, and those discussions are relevant
only if the job ends OK. Table 7 explains several other Post-Processing parameters.
Note that this section contains a SHOUT WHEN statement. This statement, which is
not examined in this chapter, is different than the DO SHOUT statement.
■ If the job ends OK, which is a condition code of less than C0008
— the prerequisite condition of the successful run from the previous month,
should be deleted
■ If the job ends NOTOK, that is, it has a condition code of C0008 or higher
After filling in the second condition, a new, blank OUT condition line is opened to
enable you to specify another condition.
21 In the ON block, specify ANYSTEP in the PGMST (program step) field, and
specify the value >C0007 in the CODES field. A value equal to or greater than
C0008 is synonymous with a value greater than C0007.
DO SHOUT TO URGENCY
=
DO
Note that the only urgency value, other than R and U, is V, which signifies a Very
Urgent message.
27 In the DO FORCEJOB statement, specify the current table name (IDGS1)in the
TABLE field; specify IDJOB4 in the JOB field; specify ODAT in the DATE field;
and specify the current scheduling library name in the LIBRARY field.
===========================================================================
OUT IDJOB3-ENDED-OK ODAT +
The Job List screen is displayed. This is where you can take a closer look at the use
of IN, OUT, and DO COND conditions, and their date qualifiers, to create job
dependencies.
Earlier in this chapter you defined a DO COND condition. Both OUT and DO COND
are post-processing statements that add or delete conditions. But the OUT condition
is only added or deleted when the job ends OK; the DO COND condition is only
added or deleted when the criteria in the ON block are satisfied.
As mentioned in the last chapter, every condition has an associated date. This can be
an explicitly defined date, such as 0909, but more commonly, it is a keyword that
represents an actual date. For example, the date keyword ODAT stands for the original
scheduling date of the job. The meaning of original scheduling date is discussed in
Chapter 5, “AutoEdit and JCL,” and is referred to in the discussion of date concepts
in the Control-M for z/OS User Guide.
A condition is actually identified by the combination of its name and date. Two
conditions having the same name but different dates are considered two different
conditions. In the last chapter, you wanted the run of IDJOB2 to be dependent on the
run of IDJOB1 from the same day. Therefore, not only did the condition names of
both jobs have to match, but so did the dates. Use of the keyword ODAT for both the
IN and the OUT condition ensured that match. Had they run on different original
scheduling dates, there would have been no match.
■ The date of the OUT condition is the date of the current job run; in other words,
ODAT.
■ The IN condition can only be satisfied by the run from the previous month.
Therefore, the date of the OUT condition is PREV, a keyword that resolves to the
previous original scheduling date (that is, the last run) of the job.
Option P (PLN) in the Job List screen is used to request a graphic display of a
schedule for job planning.
OPTIONS S SEL D DEL I INS O ORDER F FORCE J JCL C COPY P PLN T JOBSTAT 15.37.39
29 Enter option P for IDJOB3. A window containing FROM DATE and TO DATE
fields opens. This window enables you to specify the time period for which the
scheduling plan should be displayed.
OPTIONS S SEL D DEL I INS O ORDER F FORCE J JCL C COPY P PLN T JOBSTAT 11.16.50
The default FROM DATE value is the current working date. The default TO DATE
value is one month, or thirty days, following the current working date.
30 Set the FROM DATE to the first day of the current month. Set the TO DATE to the
last day of the current month, and press Enter.
05 06 07 08 09 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
*
26 27 28
The Job Scheduling screen displays a calendar in graphic format. The dates within the
specified date range on which the job is to be scheduled are marked with an asterisk.
NOTE
If the specified date range spans multiple months, a different calendar panel is displayed for
each month, beginning with the first month. You can move between panels by pressing
relevant PF keys. PF keys and their associated commands are explained in the following table.
Months in the date range in which the job is not scheduled are not displayed.
You can also display the Job Scheduling screen from the Job Scheduling Definition
screen. To do so, enter PLAN in COMMAND field. This is especially useful for
checking your definition of a complex schedule while you are working on it.
31 Exit the Job Scheduling screen to display the Job List screen.
Defining JOB4
Save the definition of IDJOB3 and create IDJOB4, as explained in the following steps.
Because you are saving the job scheduling definition in a table that already exists
(IDGS1), you should use the SAVE option, not the CREATE option.
33 Specify Y in the SAVE field and leave the CREATE field blank.
The job scheduling definition is saved in the table. Because you bypassed the Table
List screen when you entered the job scheduling definition, the entry panel is
displayed.
You can now create JOB4 by specifying a new JOB name in the entry panel, as was
done when you created IDJOB1 and IDJOB3, or by performing an Insert procedure
in the Job List screen, as was done when you created IDJOB2.
Because JOB4 will be very similar to JOB2, you should use the Insert method.
Before going to the Job List screen, however, you should first enter the Table List
screen and select the table you want to use as a template for the new job.
34 Ensure the TABLE and JOB name fields are blank in the Entry panel, and enter the
correct library name.
The Job List screen is displayed for table IDGS1. It lists jobs IDJOB1, IDJOB2, and
IDJOB3.
40 Specify Y in the SAVE field and leave the CREATE field blank.
This time, because you entered the Table List screen on the way to the job
scheduling definition, the Table List screen is displayed.
Shown below is that section of the Job List screen for table IDGS1 that lists jobs
IDJOB1, IDJOB2, IDJOB4 and IDJOB3.
An ordered job is placed in the active environment only if its Basic scheduling criteria
are satisfied when the job is ordered, that is, only if the job should otherwise be
ordered for that day. This was the case when you ordered IDJOB1 and IDJOB2,
because both jobs had a DAYS value of ALL and a Y (Yes) value for every month,
which means that the Basic scheduling criteria of the job are satisfied every single day
of the year.
In this last exercise, you made IDJOB3 eligible for ordering on the last Friday of each
month. If you try to order the job on any other day, it will not be placed in the active
environment. There is an option, however, that enables you to force the job into the
active environment even when its Basic Scheduling criteria are not satisfied. This is
the F (Force) option that is shown at the bottom of the Job List screen.
The following procedure explains how to force the scheduling of IDJOB3. You should
be aware that you do not force IDJOB4, because IDJOB4 is a conditional job that is
forced by a DO FORCEJOB statement when job IDJOB3 fails with a condition code of
C0008 or above.
42 Enter option F (Force) for IDJOB3, as shown in the following Job List screen.
OPTIONS S SEL D DEL I INS O ORDER F FORCE J JCL C COPY P PLN T JOBSTAT 15.37.39
You can now display the Active Environment screen and see the results of the
forced scheduling of IDJOB3.
46 Ensure that filter IDGS is displayed. If it does not appear in the Filter field, enter
SHOW IDGS in the COMMAND field.
47 If the Option line is not displayed at the bottom of the screen, enter OPT in the
COMMAND field to display the options.
Opt: ? Why L Log H Hold Z Zoom R Rerun A Activate O Force OK V View Sysout
N Net D Del F Free S Stat G Group U Undelete J JCL Edit C Confirm 20.59.34
Through a combination of screens, you can determine why the job is in a Wait
Schedule status and correct the problems so that the job is submitted. Some of those
screens are displayed and explained in the following sections.
Why Screen
To see why the job did not run, request the ? (Why) screen. This screen can be
accessed from the Active Environment screen by requesting the ? option for the job.
The ? option is the first option listed in the option information line at the bottom of
the screen.
The Why screen is displayed for IDJOB3. As the title line of the screen indicates, this
screen provides a scheduling analysis for the job.
■ There is a TIME LIMIT problem—the job must be submitted between 11:00 p.m.
and 4:00 a.m. This problem does not appear in the Why screen if you happen to be
working on this guide during those hours.
NOTE
Your site-defined start of workday, that is, the time of New Day Processing, can impact
how the TIME FROM and UNTIL range determines when the job should be submitted.
For more information, see the discussion of date definition concepts in Chapter 1,
“Introduction to Control-M,” and the description of the TIME parameter in the
Control-M for z/OS User Guide.
The problems listed above are the runtime scheduling requirements that prevent
your job from running.
Runtime scheduling requirements are defined for a purpose, and it is generally not
desirable to nullify them or work around them. However, sometimes it does become
desirable to manually intervene to enable job submission, and Control-M allows for
such intervention. The following sections illustrate how you can correct the problems
and enable the job run.
The condition disappears from the Why screen, and a message appears at the top of
the screen stating that the condition has been added.
The IOA Conditions/Resources screen displays the list of existing Control and
Quantitative resources, which are stored in the Control-M Resources file, and the list
of existing conditions stored in the IOA Conditions file.
You can filter the display based on prefix and/or based on type of resource or
condition. You can now filter the display so that only conditions and resources
beginning with your ID are showing.
52 Enter ID in the PREFIX field. Ensure that the COND, CONTROL and RES values
are set to Y (Yes) to display conditions, Control resources and Quantitative
resources.
Only the condition you previously added in the Why screen should appear, unless
there are other conditions and resources that are prefixed by your ID. The display
appears as shown below:
54 Enter IDTAPE-DRIVE in the NAME field and 0001 in the COUNT field, and press
Enter.
The window is closed and the resource is added to the Control-M Resources list in the
specified quantity.
55 Repeat the previous step, but specify IDCPOWER in the NAME field, and a 0005
in the COUNT field.
The IOA Conditions/Resources screen now contains the required condition and
the necessary quantities of the required resources.
Note that the condition you added from the Why screen could have instead been
added using the ADD command in the IOA Conditions/Resources screen. In this case,
the command would have been ADD CONDITION instead of ADD RESOURCE. A Control
resource can be add using the command ADD CONTROL.
Note also, in accordance with the instruction line at the bottom of the screen, that the
IOA Conditions/Resources screen permits the deletion of resources and conditions.
The Why screen, which was your last displayed screen in the Tracking and Control
facility, is displayed.
Now that the required conditions and resources have been added, the Why screen
shows the only remaining problematic runtime criteria: The TIME LIMIT problem.
You can correct this remaining problem in a screen called the Zoom screen, which is
described in the following section.
Zoom Screen
The Zoom screen is very similar to the Job Scheduling Definition screen. Instead of
displaying the permanently defined job scheduling definition, however, the Zoom
screen displays the job scheduling definition of the requested job order.
In the Zoom screen, you can change or delete TIME FROM and TIME UNTIL criteria
for a job order. You can now display the Zoom screen, which is requested from the
Active Environment screen.
The Active Environment screen is displayed. Note the Z (Zoom) option at the
bottom of the Active Environment screen. This option displays the Zoom screen.
You will recall from Chapter 2, “Scheduling Definition and Manual Intervention,”
that before you could delete a job from the Active Environment screen, you had to
place the job in Held status. To make changes through the Zoom screen, you must
first hold the job in the Active Environment screen, and then enter the Zoom
screen.
59 Enter option H for IDJOB3. Press Enter several times until the status of the job is
changed to Held Wait Schedule.
There are differences between the permanent definition displayed in the Job
Scheduling Definition screen, and the job order definition displayed in the Zoom
screen. For example, the definition in the Zoom screen does not display Basic
scheduling parameters—these parameters are irrelevant once the job order is in the
Active Environment. And the Zoom screen displays parameters such as SEARCH
COUNTER, which are not found in the job scheduling definition, but which are
relevant to the job order processing and have values set by Control-M.
The runtime scheduling parameters you defined for IDJOB3 appear in the Zoom
screen.
===========================================================================
IN IDJOB3-ENDED-OK 0202
RESOURCE IDTAPE-DRIVE 0001 IDCPOWER 0005
PIPE
FROM TIME 2300 + DAYS UNTIL TIME 0400 + DAYS
DUE OUT TIME 1159 + DAYS PRIORITY *5 SAC CONFIRM N
TIME ZONE: WAIT FOR ODATE:
CPU-ID NODE NAME NJE SEARCH COUNTER 00000
===========================================================================
Of the runtime scheduling criteria you defined, the TIME FROM and TIME UNTIL
range remains the only problem. You can resolve this by simply changing the TIME
values in the Zoom screen.
61 Change TIME FROM to a value that is an hour earlier than your current system
time. Change the UNTIL value to a time that is several hours after the current
system time.
■ Any change to a job order in the Zoom screen changes the value for that job
order only. The permanent definition that you defined in the Job Scheduling
Definition screen remains unchanged.
Therefore, intervention in job processing should be left only to those who are
specifically authorized and who have the knowledge necessary to intervene
appropriately.
You can now exit the Zoom screen and see the result.
62 Enter SAVE in the COMMAND field of the Zoom screen. The Active environment
screen is displayed.
63 Enter option F for the job order for IDJOB3. A message at the top of the screen
indicates that the freeing of the job is performed. The status of the job changes to
Requested Free Wait Schedule.
CTM659I FREE OF TASK IDJOB3 GROUP " " ODATE 020201 PERFORMED <D> - (3)
COMMAND ===> SCROLL ==> CRSR
O Name Owner Odate Jobname JobID Typ ----------- Status ------------
IDJOB3 ID 020201 JOB Requested Free Wait Schedule
========= >>>>>>>>>>>>> Bottom of Jobs List <<<<<<<<<<<<< ========
■ IDJOB3 changes to Wait Schedule status, and then goes through the regular
submission process. The job ends NOTOK (with a condition code of C0008).
■ The Shout message you defined is sent to your terminal. The message is similar
to the following:
■ As a result of the condition code from IDJOB3, job IDJOB4 is forced and is
displayed in the Active Environment screen. Job IDJOB4 ends OK.
If desired, you can check the results of the job runs in the Log file. As you did in the
last chapter, you can enter option L for either or both jobs.
Alternatively, you can enter =5 in the COMMAND line to request option 5 of the IOA
Primary Option menu. This option displays the IOA Log screen. Once in the IOA Log
screen, you can define a filter to filter the job display in much the same way that you
did in the Active Environment screen.
This completes the steps in this chapter of the Control-M for z/OS Getting Started
Guide.
Review
In this chapter you
■ looked closely at the sections in the Job Scheduling Definition screen, and learned
about the following parameters that were not discussed in the last chapter
— WDAYS
— MONTHS
— (DATES)
— CONTROL
— RESOURCE
— TIME FROM / UNTIL
— PRIORITY
— ON
— DO COND
— DO SHOUT
— DO FORCEJOB
— H (Hold)
— F (Free)
— ? (Display the Why screen)
— Z (Display the Zoom screen)
■ viewed the scheduling plan of a job in the Job Scheduling Plan screen
■ used the Why screen to see why a job didn’t run, and to add a missing condition
■ filtered the display of the IOA Conditions/Resources screen, and used the screen
to add Quantitative resources
■ used the Zoom screen to alter the runtime parameters of a job order
■ learned more prerequisite conditions and their associated dates, including the
PREV date
Recommended Reading
Before continuing with the next chapter, it is recommended that you read the
following in the Control-M for z/OS User Guide.
In Chapter 2
Description of the Job Scheduling Plan screen, Why screen, Zoom screen and IOA
Conditions/Resources screen
In Chapter 3
Detailed parameter descriptions of the parameters you have used (mentioned above,
under “Review”)
NOTE
The descriptions of the ON and WDAYS parameters are quite detailed. Read those descriptions
for a general understanding of parameter usage and possible parameter formats, without
trying to memorize all the detail. For now, you can skip the information related to
subparameter WCAL in the WDAYS parameter description.
3
3 Restarts under Control-M/Restart
This chapter includes the following topics:
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Defining Restart in the Job Scheduling Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Editing JCL from the Active Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Restarting the Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Recommended Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Overview
In the last chapter, you used a DO FORCEJOB statement in an ON/DO block to force
a “remedial” job following a job failure. However, rather than run a remedial job
following job failure, it is more likely that you will want to correct the problem and
then restart the job that failed.
In this chapter, you will learn to use Control-M/Restart to perform job restarts when
they become necessary. Before you do, however, you should be clear about the
difference between a job rerun and a job restart.
Job rerun is the re-execution of a scheduled job, starting from the beginning. For
example, if a job fails, the entire job can be rerun. At best, rerunning a job can waste
processing time on already successfully completed job steps; and unless certain
precautions are taken, if successful job steps from the prior run performed updates
before the job failed, rerunning the job can create problematic results by repeating
those updates.
Job restart is the re-execution of a job beginning at a particular step. In general, the
results of successful job steps before the failure are utilized, and re-execution
continues from the end of the last successful step.
In this chapter, you will define restart parameters in the job scheduling definition,
and then, following job failure and correction of the problem, see and involve
yourself in the process of restart.
Preparations
For this chapter, you will create a new job and its job scheduling definitions. You will
use the name IDJOB5, and the same library and table that you used in the preceding
chapter.
To create the JCL for IDJOB5, begin with a copy of the TESTUTIL JCL, such as the JCL
you used for IDJOB3. Recall that for job IDJOB3 this JCL had one step, which you
defined to end with a condition code of C0008. For IDJOB5, you should make the
following changes:
1. Change the step so that it ends with a condition code of C0000 (so the step ends
OK).
2. Copy the changed step and its accompanying DD statements four times, so that
you have five steps in the job. Name those steps S1, S2, S3, S4, and S5, respectively.
3. Change the third step (S3) so that it ends with a condition code of C0008.
Your job should now have five steps, four of which end okay, but one, the third, that
ends with a condition code of C0008.
You can now continue with the first part of these exercises; the creation of the job
scheduling definition.
2 Ensure that the following values are part of the job scheduling definition:
■ In the MEMNAME field, specify IDJOB5. Fill in the appropriate JCL library
name in the MEMLIB field.
■ In the DAYS field, specify ALL, and specify Y in all the MONTHS fields. These
are the only Basic Scheduling parameters you should define.
IDJOB5-ENDED-OK ODAT +
You are now ready to define the ON and DO statements. These will include your
restart parameters.
3 In the ON block, specify ANYSTEP as the program step (PGMST) value. Specify
>C0004 as the codes value.
The meaning of the >C0004 value should be clear. Generally, a step is considered
to have ended OK if the routine returns a code of C0004 or lower. Therefore, a
CODES value of >C0004 instructs Control-M to perform the accompanying DO
statements if the job ended NOTOK.
In the preceding chapter, and again in this step, you specified ANYSTEP as the
PGMST step values. These ON step values should be examined more closely.
ON Steps
The ON step fields identify the possible steps against which Control-M will check
for the specified CODES values.
You can specify either or both types of values, but you must specify at least one value
if you use an ON block.
DO statements are performed if the CODES criteria are satisfied for any
program step.
— +EVERY
DO statements are performed only if the CODES criteria are satisfied for all
steps, program and/or procedure, depending on the definition.
You can define a range of steps in the STEP RANGE statement, immediately above
the ON statement. You must assign a name to this step range.
You can then specify this step range name, preceded by an asterisk, as the step
value in the ON statement. The asterisk prefix in the ON statement instructs
Control-M to check the program step range defined in the STEP RANGE field,
rather than looking for an actual program step by that name.
DO statements are performed if the CODES criteria are satisfied for any program
step in the step range.
IDJOB5-END-NOTOK ODAT +
You can now to define a Shout statement to the operator. However, because this is
only an exercise and you do not want the shout to actually go to the operator, you
will instead send the shout to yourself.
You are now ready to define your restart parameters. Two statements are generally
used in combination, to define a restart:
■ DO IFRERUN
■ DO RERUN
The DO RERUN parameter merely instructs Control-M to run the job again. If you
wanted a rerun without a restart, you would specify only the DO RERUN
parameter, and the job would be rerun from the beginning.
Note that this statement contains FROM, TO, and CONFIRM fields. The default
value of the CONFIRM field should be N (No).
NOTE
The CONFIRM field of the DO IFRERUN statement is similar in meaning to the CONFIRM
runtime scheduling parameter that you used in Chapter 1, “Introduction to Control-M.”
However, it applies only to restarted jobs, whereas the CONFIRM runtime scheduling
parameter applies to all job runs.
The FROM field indicates the step from which the restart should begin, and the TO
field indicates the step to which the restart should continue.
Both the FROM and the TO fields allow specification of a program step, to the left
of the period, and/or a procedure step, to the right of the period. You can specify
either or both values.
■ A TO step value can only be a literal value, such as S3, if this is a step name, or
blank. If no TO value is specified, job processing continues to the end.
■ The FROM field allows specification of either a literal value or a keyword that
represents a step. Some of the valid keyword values for the FROM step are
listed in the following table:
Before exiting the job scheduling definition, return and define one more OUT
condition.
10 In the OUT condition line, add the following condition as the second condition on
that line:
IDJOB5-END-NOTOK ODAT -
If the job fails, and then successfully finishes following restart, this OUT condition
deletes the DO COND condition that was added by the job failure. If the job does not
fail, there is no IDJOB5-END-NOTOK condition to delete. In this case, no deletion
occurs and processing continues.
11 Exit the Job Scheduling Definition screen to the Job List screen.
12 Exit the Job List screen and save the changes, by entering Y in SAVE field of the
Exit Option window. The Table List screen is displayed.
13 Reenter the Job List screen for the table, and order job IDJOB5. The Job Order
Messages screen is displayed. and the job is ordered.
14 Exit the Job Order Messages screen and display the Active Environment screen by
entering =3 in the COMMAND field. The Active Environment screen is displayed.
15 Ensure that filter IDGS is displayed. If it does not appear in the Filter field, enter
SHOW IDGS in the COMMAND field).
16 Refresh the display as often as needed. A message similar to the following message
is Shouted to your terminal:
CTM- IDJOB5 RUN FAILED. CORRECT PROBLEM AND RESTART 02.02 12:38 CN(INTERNAL)
The job goes through a process of submission and execution, and finally ends with
the status: Ended- Not “OK” Due to CC - Rerun Needed:
The Active Environment screen appears as follows. If the jobs from the exercises in
the preceding chapter have not been deleted by site maintenance, they will also
appear in the screen.
The CC in the status refers to a condition code. You can now review the job log and
identify the condition code problem.
17 Call up the log for the job by entering L in the OPTION field. The Control-M Log
screen is displayed for the job.
Each event in the life cycle of the job appears as a message issued by Control-M. Note
the following messages:
■ SEL214I indicates that rerun is needed, reflecting what you deliberately defined in
the job.
You can correct the JCL of this job by using the JCL option in the Active Environment
screen.
18 Exit the Control-M Log screen. The Active Environment screen is displayed.
Note the option J (JCL) at the bottom of the screen. If the list of commands is
displayed instead of the list of options, enter the OPT command to toggle to the list
of options.
19 Enter option J for the job. The JCL is displayed in ISPF edit mode.
20 Change the condition code of C0008 in step S3 to C0000, and exit the JCL. The
Active Environment screen is displayed. You can now restart the job.
When a rerun is requested, a window is opened. The window is different for regular
reruns and restart reruns. Because you defined a DO IFRERUN statement in the job
scheduling definition, you see the Confirm Restart window:
Opt: ? Why L Log H Hold Z Zoom R Rerun A Activate O Force OK V View Sysout
N Net D Del F Free S Stat G Group U Undelete J JCL Edit C Confirm 15.46.06
The bottom half of the window deals with restart information. In this exercise, you
will only look at the first line, which tells you from which step, and to which step, the
restart will be performed.
■ The FROM value is S3. This makes sense because steps S1 and S2 ended
successfully.
■ The TO step is blank, which means that once restart begins, it will continue till the
end of the job. Consider the following:
— If you do not want the steps after the restart step to run again, you can specify
restart step S3 as the TO step.
— If you defined the JCL so that steps after the failed step do not run, and you
want them to run following the restart, you should leave the TO value blank.
At this point, all you need to do is enter Y in the CONFIRM field, and the job will
restart. However, you should not take that action at this time.
There might be instances in which you want the job to restart from a different step
than the one determined by Control-M/Restart as the logical restart step. It is
possible to change the FROM and TO steps in the Confirm Restart window. To
facilitate this change, you can display the list of steps in the job.
Notice that ? is a valid value for the With Restart field. Entering ? displays the list of
steps.
22 Enter ? in the With Restart field. The Restart Step List window is opened over the
Restart Window.
The Control-M/Restart Step List window sequentially lists all the steps in the job,
assigning each of them a sequence number.
At the bottom of the window are three options that can be specified in the O (Option)
field for the appropriate step:
You can specify option F for step S3, but this is not necessary, since that value is
already indicated in the Restart Window. So just exit the Restart Step List window.
23 Press PF03/PF15 to exit the Restart Step List window. The Restart Step List window
is closed, and the Restart Window is displayed.
24 Enter Y in the Please Confirm field. The Restart window is closed, and the rerun
with restart now begins.
Notice the progression of status changes for the job in the Active Environment screen.
When the rerun with restart is complete, the job appears as shown below:
Notice that there are two status descriptions for the job—each belonging to one of the
runs:
■ The current status, Ended “OK” (Restarted), applies to Run2. The job was
successfully restarted.
■ The original status with the problematic CC now appears as being associated with
the prior run.
You can now look at the message log for the restarted job.
25 Call up the log of the job by entering L in the OPTION field. The Control-M Log
screen is displayed for the job.
Notice the message SEL208I. This message indicates that the job ended “OK.”
This completes the steps in this chapter of the Control-M for z/OS Getting Started
Guide.
Review
In this chapter you
■ learned valid restart step keyword values and specified that the job should restart
from step $EXERR
■ entered the JCL of the failed job from the Active Environment screen by entering
the J (JCL) option, and corrected the JCL
■ confirmed a rerun/restart request (Option C) for the failed job in the Active
Environment screen, and in the process you displayed the Confirm Restart
Window and Restart Step List window, in which you confirmed the restart
■ checked the log of the job following the failed run, and again following the restart
Recommended Reading
Before continuing with the next chapter, it is recommended that you read the
following:
— all of Chapter 1.
— in Chapter 2, the online material related to the Scheduling Definition facility and
the Tracking and Control facility.
4
4 SMART Table Scheduling
This chapter includes the following topics:
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Creating a SMART Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
SMART Table Entity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Planned Logic of the Job Scheduling Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Jobs Scheduling Definitions in the SMART Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Saving the Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Points to Remember Concerning SMART Table Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
SMART Table Entity Ordering and Job Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Advantages of SMART Table Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Recommended Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Overview
When defining job scheduling definitions, it is good practice to group together
related job scheduling definitions. This is not a requirement—related jobs can belong
to different groups, or not belong to any group—but it can be useful. For example, if
related jobs belong to the same group, you can use the group name to filter the Active
Environment screen so that only the jobs in that group are displayed. But greater
functionality than just ease of filtering a display can be provided by assigning a set of
jobs to a SMART Table.
The major advantage of defining SMART Tables is that they enable you to define
basic scheduling criteria, runtime scheduling criteria and post processing criteria that
apply to the jobs in the SMART Table as a whole.
Preparations
In the exercises in the previous chapters of this guide, you created the JCL for five
jobs, IDJOB1 through IDJOB5. To simplify preparation for this chapter, you will
utilize all five of these JCLs.
In addition, you will utilize one of the job scheduling definitions that you created in
Chapter 1, “Introduction to Control-M,” the job scheduling definition for IDJOB1, in
table IDGS1. For the remaining jobs, you will creates new job scheduling definitions
in a new table (IDGS2), as part of the exercises.
Before continuing with the exercises, you should perform the following preparatory
steps:
■ In the JCL of IDJOB5, change the JCL of step S5 so that it sets a return code of
C0008 instead of C0000.
■ Ensure the following, which should be the case if you completed all of the steps in
the previous chapters of this guide:
— The JCL for step S1 in IDJOB3 sets a return code of C0000, and not C0008.
— All conditions from previous exercises in this guide do not appear in, or are
deleted from, the IOA Conditions/Resources screen.
— All job orders from previous exercises in this guide do not appear in, or are
deleted from, the Active Environment screen.
You are now ready to look at SMART Table scheduling. For purposes of these
exercises, you should assume that the new table contains jobs that must run at end of
week and at end of month.
In this chapter, you will create a new table called IDGS2; in the previous chapters of
this guide you used a table called IDGS1.
Notice the field SMART TABLE. Valid values for this field are Y (SMART Table) or
[Enter] (Table that handles jobs individually). In previous chapters of this guide, you
ignored this field because the default value [Enter] served your purpose when you
worked with table IDGS1. Now, however, you want to define the new table, IDGS2,
to be a SMART Table.
A SMART Table contains a mechanism for defining parameters that apply to the table
as a whole.
In the previous chapters, whenever you defined a job scheduling definition in table
IDGS1, the parameters in the job scheduling definition could only be applied to that
job. For example, a TIME FROM value, or a DO SHOUT value, in the job scheduling
definition for IDJOB3, applied only to IDJOB3. If you wanted to apply the same
parameters to IDJOB4, you had to define the parameters in the job scheduling
definition of IDJBO4.
2 In the Entry Panel, enter IDGS2 in the TABLE field and Y in the SMART TABLE
field.
Although the SMART Table Entity scheduling definition is similar to the job
scheduling definition, there are differences. The first thing to note is that the term TBL
in the upper left corner identifies the definition as a SMART Table Entity.
The next thing to note is that the first field in the definition, under the COMMAND
line, is the TABLE field, followed by the GROUP field on the same line. Note also that
there is no MEMLIB field.
In a regular job scheduling definition, the MEMNAME parameter contains the name of
the JCL member of the job. However, a SMART Table Entity does not have a JCL
member. Therefore, any value can be specified in the MEMNAME field. But keep in
mind that whatever name you specify in the MEMNAME field automatically gets
placed in the DOCMEM field.
3 In the TABLE field, specify the value GRPSCHD, which is the name of our
SMART Table. In the GROUP field, specify the name IDGRP4, which is the name
of our group.
4 In the DESC field, specify SMART TABLE ENTITY FOR TABLE IDGS2. The
entries in the General parameters section appear as shown below:
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
TABLE GRPSCHD GROUP IDGRP4
OWNER ID
APPL
DESC SMART TABLE ENTITY FOR TABLE IDGS2
ADJUST CONDITIONS N TBL MAXWAIT 05
SET VAR
DOCMEM GRPSCHD DOCLIB
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
SCHEDULE RBC
DAYS DCAL
AND/OR
WDAYS WCAL
MONTHS 1- Y 2- Y 3- Y 4- Y 5- Y 6- Y 7- Y 8- Y 9- Y 10- Y 11- Y 12- Y
DATES
CONFCAL SHIFT RETRO N MAXWAIT 05
SCHEDULE RBC ACTIVE FROM UNTIL
===========================================================================
5 In the SCHEDULE RBC field, specify the name EOW, which stands for END-OF-
WEEK. In the WDAYS field, specify the value 0, which means the last day of the
week.
===========================================================================
SCHEDULE RBC EOW
DAYS DCAL
AND/OR
WDAYS 0 WCAL
MONTHS 1- Y 2- Y 3- Y 4- Y 5- Y 6- Y 7- Y 8- Y 9- Y 10- Y 11- Y 12- Y
DATES
CONFCAL SHIFT RETRO N MAXWAIT 05
SCHEDULE RBC ACTIVE FROM UNTIL
===========================================================================
SCHEDULE RBC
DAYS DCAL
AND/OR
WDAYS WCAL
MONTHS 1- Y 2- Y 3- Y 4- Y 5- Y 6- Y 7- Y 8- Y 9- Y 10- Y 11- Y 12- Y
DATES
CONFCAL SHIFT RETRO N MAXWAIT 05
SCHEDULE RBC ACTIVE FROM UNTIL
===========================================================================
Notice that a new, blank set of Basic Scheduling criteria opens up.
Thus far, in each of your job scheduling definitions, you have been limited to defining
only one set of Basic scheduling parameters. This is because a job scheduling
definition can have only one occurrence of the Basic Scheduling parameter section.
SMART TABLE Entities, on the other hand, can have multiple occurrences of the
Basic scheduling parameters section. Once you have defined a set of Basic Scheduling
parameters, a new, blank section of Basic Scheduling parameters opens to enable you
to define another set.
You distinguish between the sets of Basic Scheduling parameters in the SMART
TABLE Entity by assigning a name to each set in the SCHEDULE RBC field.
In the “Preparations” section above, you determined that the jobs in this table will
run at the end of the week and at the end of the month. You have just defined the
basic scheduling criteria for the end of the week run. You can now define the basic
scheduling criteria for the end of the month run.
6 In the empty SCHEDULE RBC field, specify the name EOM, which stands for
END-OF-MONTH. In the DAYS field, specify the value L1, which means the last
day of the month.
7 In the blank SCHEDULE RBC field, specify the name EXERCISES. In the DAYS
field, specify the value ALL.
Your entries in the Basic Scheduling parameter section are displayed as shown in
Figure 38.
In the “Preparations” section above, you determined that you would continue to use
the job scheduling definition of IDJOB1 in table IDGS1.
Assume that job IDJOB1, in table IDGS1, must end OK before any of the jobs in table
IDGS2 can run. You will now add the condition necessary to establish this job
dependency.
===========================================================================
IN IDJOB1-ENDED-OK ODAT
CONTROL
FROM TIME + DAYS UNTIL TIME + DAYS
===========================================================================
Unlike the ON block, which applies to the individual job, the ON TABLE-END block
applies to the jobs in the SMART Table as a whole. Valid values for the ON TABLE-
END field are as follows:
Not all DO statements that are valid in the job scheduling definition are valid in the
SMART Table Entity. The DO statements listed below can be specified in the SMART
Table Entity. Several of these DO statements have not been described in this guide,
but they are all described in the Control-M for z/OS User Guide:
■ DO COND
■ DO OK
■ DO MAIL
■ DO FORCEJOB
■ DO SET
■ DO NOTOK
■ DO SHOUT
You can now fill in the Post-processing parameters of the SMART Table Entity.
11 In the accompanying DO field, specify SHOUT, and enter the following message
in the DO SHOUT statement :
13 In the accompanying DO field, specify COND, and fill in the DO COND statement
with the following: IDGS2-END-NOTOK ODAT +.
14 In the next DO field, specify SHOUT, and enter the following message in the DO
SHOUT statement:
PROBLEM WITH TABLE PROCESSING. AT LEAST ONE JOB DID NOT END
OK.
■ The SMART Table Entity is used to help determine and control the processing of
the jobs in the table.
— EOW criteria result in jobs being scheduled on the last day of the of week.
— EOM criteria result in jobs being scheduled on the last day of the month.
— EXERCISES criteria result in jobs being scheduled every day, for purposes of the
exercises in this guide.
You will soon see how these sets of scheduling criteria apply to the job scheduling
definitions in this table.
■ You defined an OUT condition that is set only when all scheduled jobs in table
IDGS2 end OK. This condition can be used as an IN condition to some other job
that requires successful completion of the jobs in table IDGS2 as a prerequisite.
— The first set applies if all the scheduled jobs in the table end OK. It shouts a
message to that effect,
— The second set applies if any of the scheduled jobs in the table ends NOTOK. It
shouts a message to that effect; and it sets an appropriate condition that can, for
example, be used to run an auxiliary job.
You are about to exit the SMART Table Entity and create the job scheduling
definitions in table IDGS2. However, before doing so, outline the logic you would like
to see in the job scheduling definitions.
■ Table IDGS2 will contain jobs IDJOB2, IDJOB3, IDJOB4, and IDJOB5.
■ IDJOB2 should be run both at end of week and end of month, and during the
exercise.
■ IDJOB3 should be run following IDJOB2, at end of week or month, and during the
exercise, provided that the day is a weekday, that is, on Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.
■ IDJOB4 should be run both at end of week and at end of month, but should also
run on several other days of the month: the 8th, the 14th, and, so the exercise will
work, the day that you perform this exercise.
■ IDJOB5 should run following IDJOB4, but only at end of week and end of month,
and during the exercise. It should not run the other days specified.
15 Exit the SMART Table Entity. Upon exiting the SMART Table Entity the first time,
a blank Job Scheduling Definition screen is displayed.
As with all job scheduling definitions, JOB: is displayed in the upper left corner.
Notice, however, that the GROUP field already has a value, which is IDGRP4. The
name specified in the GROUP field of the SMART Table Entity is not automatically
assigned as the GROUP name of the jobs in the SMART Table. Only jobs whose
GROUP name is blank are assigned the GROUP name from the SMART Table Entity.
Notice that job scheduling definitions in SMART Tables contain two Basic Scheduling
parameter fields not found in tables with disabled SMART Table attributes:
SCHEDULE RBC and RELATIONSHIP.
The SCHEDULE RBC field enables you to assign to the job scheduling definition any
desired sets of basic scheduling criteria that you defined in the SMART Table Entity.
16 Specify IDJOB2 in the MEMNAME field and the name of the JCL library you are
using in the MEMLIB field.
17 Specify JOB2 in the DESC field. Your entries in the General parameters section are
displayed as follows:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
MEMNAME IDJOB2 MEMLIB CTM.TEST.JCL
OWNER ID TASKTYPE JOB PREVENT-NCT2 DFLT N
APPL GROUP IDGRP4
DESC JOB2
OVERLIB STAT CAL
SCHENV SYSTEM ID NJE NODE
SET VAR
CTB STEP AT NAME TYPE
DOCMEM IDJOB2 DOCLIB
===========================================================================
18 Specify EOW in the SCHEDULE RBC field. A new SCHEDULE RBC field opens
up.
19 Specify EOM in the new SCHEDULE RBC field, and then specify EXERCISES in
the third SCHEDULE RBC field that opens up.
This job is now eligible for scheduling if either the EOW or EOM sets of basic
scheduling criteria in the SMART Table Entity are satisfied. The EXERCISES criteria
must also be satisfied to enable you to complete these instructions.
Your entries in the Basic Scheduling parameters section are displayed as follows:
===========================================================================
SCHEDULE RBC EOW
SCHEDULE RBC EOM
SCHEDULE RBC EXERCISES
SCHEDULE RBC
RELATIONSHIP (AND/OR) O
DAYS DCAL
AND/OR
WDAYS WCAL
MONTHS 1- Y 2- Y 3- Y 4- Y 5- Y 6- Y 7- Y 8- Y 9- Y 10- Y 11- Y 12- Y
DATES
CONFCAL SHIFT RETRO N MAXWAIT 05 D-CAT
MINIMUM PDS
DEFINITION ACTIVE FROM UNTIL
===========================================================================
The Post-processing section requires an OUT condition for this job because it is a
prerequisite to IDJOB3. But you must decide whether to define Post-processing
parameters in case the job ends NOTOK, that is, you need to decide whether the
SMART Table Entity post-processing parameters are sufficient, or whether IDJOB2
requires its own additional post-processing definitions. For purposes of this exercise,
assume that the SMART Table Entity Post-processing actions are sufficient.
===========================================================================
OUT IDJOB2-ENDED-OK ODAT +
AUTO-ARCHIVE Y SYSDB Y MAXDAYS MAXRUNS
RETENTION: # OF DAYS TO KEEP # OF GENERATIONS TO KEEP
SYSOUT OP (C,D,F,N,R) FROM
MAXRERUN RERUNMEM INTERVAL FROM
STEP RANGE FR (PGM.PROC) . TO .
ON PGMST PROCST CODES A/O
DO
SHOUT WHEN TIME + DAYS TO URGN
MS
======= >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> END OF SCHEDULING PARAMETERS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< =====
21 Save this job scheduling definition and exit the job scheduling definition. The Job
List screen is displayed.
Both the SMART Table Entity and the job scheduling definition that you created are
listed in the Job List screen. Note the TYP field. This field identifies the type of entity
listed. Valid values are: T, which identifies SMART Table Entity, and J, which
identifies Job Scheduling Definition.
You can now create the remaining job scheduling definitions, beginning with IDJOB3.
23 Specify IDJOB3 in the MEMNAME field (the MEMLIB field is already filled in).
24 Specify JOB3 in the DESC field. The Basic Scheduling parameters found in IDJOB2
appear in IDJOB3.
===========================================================================
SCHEDULE RBC EOW
SCHEDULE RBC EOM
SCHEDULE RBC EXERCISES
SCHEDULE RBC
RELATIONSHIP (AND/OR) O
DAYS DCAL
AND/OR
WDAYS WCAL
MONTHS 1- Y 2- Y 3- Y 4- Y 5- Y 6- Y 7- Y 8- Y 9- Y 10- Y 11- Y 12- Y
DATES
CONFCAL SHIFT RETRO N MAXWAIT 05 D-CAT
MINIMUM PDS
DEFINITION ACTIVE FROM UNTIL
===========================================================================
Recall that you want this job to be scheduled at end of week and end of month (just
like IDJOB2), but only if those days do not fall on a Saturday or Sunday. Therefore,
you will keep these Basic Scheduling parameter values, and specify several
additional values as well.
■ The Basic Scheduling criteria allow you to define scheduling criteria apart from the
criteria found in the Schedule RBCs.
■ The RELATIONSHIP field determines the relationship between these criteria and
the Schedule RBCs. Valid values are A (And) or O (Or):
— The A value is more restrictive. In addition to the Schedule RBC criteria being
satisfied, the basic scheduling criteria of the job, itself, must also be satisfied.
— The O value is less restrictive. Even if the Schedule RBC criteria of the job are not
satisfied, the job can be scheduled if its basic scheduling criteria are satisfied.
You should schedule job IDJOB3 only if the EOM, EOW (or EXERCISES) criteria are
satisfied and the day is weekday (Monday through Friday).
NOTE
You want this job to be scheduled on the day you perform this exercise. Adjust the WDAYS
value so that it includes the day on which you are working.
Your entries in the Basic Scheduling parameters section are displayed as follows,
except as adjusted to ensure that the WDAYS field contains your current working
day:
===========================================================================
SCHEDULE RBC EOW
SCHEDULE RBC EOM
SCHEDULE RBC EXERCISES
SCHEDULE RBC
RELATIONSHIP (AND/OR) A
DAYS DCAL
AND/OR
WDAYS 1,2,3,4,5 WCAL
MONTHS 1- Y 2- Y 3- Y 4- Y 5- Y 6- Y 7- Y 8- Y 9- Y 10- Y 11- Y 12- Y
DATES
CONFCAL SHIFT RETRO N MAXWAIT 05 D-CAT
MINIMUM PDS
DEFINITION ACTIVE FROM UNTIL
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
IN IDJOB2-ENDED-OK ODAT
CONTROL
RESOURCE
PIPE
FROM TIME + DAYS UNTIL TIME + DAYS
===========================================================================
In the exercises you have previously performed in this guide, you defined OUT
conditions indicating that the job ended OK, even when that job is not a prerequisite
to other jobs. This is good practice, but not a requirement. To demonstrate this, since
no other job is dependent on this job, you should delete the condition.
28 Delete the OUT condition. The Post-processing parameter section will be empty,
and the entire job scheduling definition is displayed as follows:
29 Exit the job scheduling definition. You can now create the job scheduling definition
for IDJOB4.
30 Perform an INSERT (I) next to IDJOB3. A job scheduling definition similar to that
belonging to IDJOB3 is displayed.
32 Specify JOB4 in the DESC field. The Basic Scheduling parameters found in IDJOB3
appear in IDJOB4.
35 Specify 08,14 and the current working day of the month in the DAYS field.
By defining the current working day in the DAYS field, you can see how the Or
Relationship works.
37 If the day on which you perform these exercises satisfies the EOW or EOM criteria,
delete the schedule RBCs of the satisfied criteria from the job scheduling definition.
The Basic scheduling criteria should only be satisfied by the DAYS parameter, not
by any schedule RBCs in the job scheduling definition. If the Or relationship works
as expected, the job will still be scheduled.
There was no OUT condition in IDJOB3, so none appears in IDJOB4. You should
add the appropriate condition.
You can now create the job scheduling definition for IDJOB5.
41 Perform an INSERT (I) next to IDJOB4. A job scheduling definition similar to that
belonging to IDJOB4 is displayed.
43 Specify JOB5 in the DESC field. The Basic Scheduling parameters found in IDJOB4
appear in IDJOB5.
44 Replace all deleted schedule RBCs so that the job scheduling definition contains
schedule RBCs EOW, EOM, and EXERCISES.
The job should only be scheduled according to the specified schedule RBCs. You
should make this job dependent on successful completion of IDJOB4.
47 In the OUT condition, change the string JOB4 to JOB5. The job scheduling
definition is displayed as follows:
48 Exit the job scheduling definition. The Job List screen is displayed as shown in
Figure 42.
50 Specify Y in the SAVE field to save table IDGS2. The table is saved, and the entry
panel is displayed.
■ Only the SMART Table Entity can be ordered. Individual jobs in the SMART Table
cannot be ordered, although they can be forced.
■ When a SMART Table Entity is ordered, its schedule RBCs are checked to see if the
SMART Table Entity is eligible for scheduling. If none of the sets of scheduling
criteria for the SMART Table Entity is satisfied, neither the SMART Table Entity,
nor any of its jobs, are ordered. In this case, even if a the basic scheduling criteria of
the job itself are satisfied, and an OR relationship is defined, the job is not
scheduled.
■ If at least one set of scheduling criteria is satisfied, each job is checked to see if it
can be scheduled according to the combination of its schedule RBCs, basic
scheduling criteria, and the defined AND/OR relationship.
52 Enter the ORDER option by the SMART Table Entity only. The SMART Table
Entity and all its jobs are ordered.
When a SMART Table Entity is ordered, all the jobs in the SMART Table that
should be scheduled that day are automatically ordered as well. Because all the
jobs have the Schedule RBC EXERCISES, they were all ordered.
53 Enter the Active Environment screen and filter the display using the IDGS filter.
The screen is displayed as follows:
54 Request the Why screen, Option ?, for the SMART Table Entity.
55 Display the Job List screen for table IDGS1 and job order IDJOB1.
57 Confirm IDJOB1 and then watch the impact on the SMART Table Entity and jobs
in table IDGS2.
From that point on, the processing continues. Once job IDJOB2 ends OK, job IDJOB3
is submitted; once IDJOB4 ends OK, job IDJOB5 is submitted.
Job IDJOB3 ends OK, but IDJOB5 does not, due to the condition code C0008. Because
at least one of the jobs in the SMART Tables—IDJOB5—ended NOTOK, the SMART
Table Entity ends NOTOK. At the end of processing, the status of the jobs appears as
follows:
You can go back and correct the JCL for IDJOB5, and then rerun the job.
58 Edit the JCL for IDJOB5, which you can do using the JCL option in the current
screen, and change the output condition code in step S5 from C0008 to C0000. Then
exit back to the Active Environment screen
In the previous chapter, you learned about reruns in context of restarts, but it is
also possible to rerun a failed job from the beginning. Do this for IDJOB5.
59 Enter option R (Rerun) for job IDJOB5. The Rerun/Restart window is displayed. In
this case, the With Restart value is N (No restart).
60 Enter Y (Yes) in the Confirm field of the window. The job is rerun.
The second run of the job ends OK, and so does the SMART Table Entity. The
Active Environment screen is displayed as follows:
Go into the IOA Conditions/Resources screen and see the results of these job runs.
— This is followed by the ENDED-OK for IDJOB5, after the rerun, and finally, the
ENDED-OK status is displayed for the SMART Table IDGS2.
Once a set of basic scheduling parameters is defined in the SMART Table Entity, all
jobs that require that set of scheduling parameters can utilize them simply by
specifying the schedule RBC name in the appropriate field. The more complex and
detailed the scheduling parameters, the greater the advantage.
Regular job scheduling definitions provide for one set of scheduling criteria.
However, in a SMART Table, the SMART Table Entity can include multiple sets of
scheduling criteria, and any number of these can be specified in any job scheduling
definition in the SMART Table. This enables the job to utilize multiple sets of basic
scheduling criteria.
Defining an IN condition in a SMART Table Entity makes all jobs in that table
dependent on that condition without defining the IN condition in all the
individual job scheduling definitions. The more jobs in the SMART Table that have
no predecessor job other than the predecessor of the SMART Table Entity, the
greater this advantage.
If you want to define Post-processing that should be performed only if any of the
jobs ended NOTOK, it is much easier to define the conditional Post-processing
once in the SMART Table Entity, rather than repeatedly in each job scheduling
definition.
If you want to define Post-processing that should be defined if all the jobs ended
OK, this is also easier to do in SMART Tables if there are jobs not belonging to the
same hierarchy of dependence.
If the submission of a job in another table depends on the outcome of all the jobs in
the current table, this is easier to define in a SMART Table.
This completes the steps in this chapter of the Control-M for z/OS Getting Started
Guide.
Review
In this chapter you
■ defined a SMART Table Entity with multiple sets of scheduling criteria and with a
dependency on successful completion of a job from another table
■ defined additional criteria for two of the jobs in the SMART Table—using an AND
relationship with the additional criteria in one of the jobs, and using an OR
relationship in the other job
■ defined two separate lines of dependency in the jobs in the SMART Table—IDJOB3
dependent on IDJOB2, and IDJOB5 dependent on IDJOB4—but no dependency
between IDJOB3 and IDJOB4
■ ordered the SMART Table Entity with the result that all jobs in the table that
should have been scheduled that day were also ordered
■ observed that the SMART Table Entity ended NOTOK when one of the jobs in the
SMART Table ended NOTOK
■ learned the advantages of using a SMART Table over a table that handles jobs
individually
Recommended Reading
Before continuing with the next chapter, you should read the following in the
Control-M for z/OS User Guide:
In Chapter 2
■ reasons in the Why screen related to SMART Table jobs and SMART Table Entities
In Chapter 3
— ADJUST CONDITIONS
— ON TABLE-END
— RELATIONSHIP
— SCHEDULE RBCS
— DO statements
— MEMNAME
— ON
5
5 AutoEdit and JCL
This chapter includes the following topics:
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Using AutoEdit System Variables in the JCL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
System Date, Working Date and ODATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Date System Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Non-Date System Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Introduction to AutoEdit Control Statements and Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
AutoEdit Function Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
%%$CALCDTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
%%$JULIAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Other Available Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Supplying Variable Values through the Job Scheduling Definition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Checking AutoEdit Syntax and Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Activating Utility CTMAESIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
AutoEdit Variables in Other Job Scheduling Definition Statements . . . . . . . . . . 150
Supplying Variable Values through an External Member. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Pointing to External Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Additional AutoEdit Control Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Complex AutoEdit Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Local Variables and Global Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Defining Global Variables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Global Variable Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Global Variable Access by Another Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Global Variable Update by Another Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
JCL Setup Operation Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Recommended Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Overview
In the production environment, JCL must often be manually modified prior to
submission of a job, as in the following cases:
Manual modification of the JCL is inconvenient at best, and it can be error-prone and
lead to serious problems. The JCL and AutoEdit facility offers an automated
alternative to manual JCL update.
The JCL and AutoEdit facility enables AutoEdit terms, variables, functions, and
control statements to be specified in the JCL, in place of values that change from job
submission to job submission. AutoEdit terms are prefixed by a pair of percent
symbols, %%, which distinguishes them from other terms. For example, the term
%%ODAY is recognized as an AutoEdit term.
At time of job submission, AutoEdit terms in the JCL are resolved to, or replaced by,
their actual values. The inclusion of AutoEdit terms in the job stream can eliminate
the need to change JCL once it is defined.
Certain AutoEdit terms can also be used within job scheduling definitions, and can
include system and user-defined variables, functions, operators, and control
statements.
Control-M provides an AutoEdit simulation facility that enables you to check the
results of AutoEdit inclusion before you run a job in the production environment.
You can also define Global AutoEdit variables in a database that allows the variables
to be accessed and updated by different jobs.
■ see the results of using AutoEdit terms in the JCL of the job, and examine a number
of AutoEdit variables
■ look at the online utility facility and use the AutoEdit simulation facility to check
the results of our AutoEdit usage
Preparations
For this chapter, do the following:
■ In table IDGS3, create four very basic job scheduling definitions, for IDJOB6,
IDJOB7, IDJOB8 and IDJOB9, as follows:
■ In your JCL table, create separate JCLs that do nothing—for example, IEFBR14—
for jobs IDJOB6, and IDJOB7, IDJOB8, and IDJOB9. Use the JCL from IDJOB1 as the
basis for this JCL.
You will make changes to the JCL and job scheduling definitions, as required, during
the performance of these exercises.
You can use AutoEdit terms to eliminate the need for such updates. In your exercise,
you will use several AutoEdit variables in trivial comment lines, but these comment
lines will nonetheless demonstrate the usefulness of AutoEdit terms.
1 Edit the JCL of IDJOB6, add the following comment lines, and then exit:
2 Enter the Scheduling Definition facility and order IDJOB6 (in table IDGS3). The
Message screen is displayed indicating that the job ran.
3 Go to the Active Environment screen and request the Sysout display for the job
(enter option V for the job to display the Job Order Execution History screen, and
then enter option S to display the Sysout Viewing screen). The Sysout for job
IDJOB6 is displayed.
4 Page down, or enter the command N (NEXT) in the COMMAND field (Command
NEXT is discussed in Chapter 6, “Navigating The Active Environment.”).
The Sysout contains the comment lines you inserted in the JCL, as shown in Figure 43
on page 136). Notice that the AutoEdit variables in the JCL resolved to their
appropriate values.
It you were to run this job again tomorrow, then the variables would resolve
accordingly. It should be apparent, that use of AutoEdit system variables such as
%%ODATE can eliminate the need to manually update the JCL before a job is run.
Before continuing with the exercise, take a closer look at certain date concepts and
AutoEdit date variables.
System Date
System date corresponds to the actual calendar date. At any hour on the 9th of
September in the year 2000, the system date is the 090900. At the end of the day, when
midnight is reached, the system date changes to the 10th of September (100900).
(Of course, your system clock can be set incorrectly. For example, if the system clock
is an hour slow, then your system date will not advance at midnight, but rather at
1:00 a.m. Assume that your system clock is set correctly, and that the system time and
date correspond to the true time and date.)
The advantage of using a working day in the production data center is that end of day
jobs performed after midnight can have the same working date as jobs performed
before midnight; they all have the same working day.
Each site defines its own working day for Control-M. Actually, the site defines the
start time of the new working day, which also marks the end of the old working day.
For example, if the new working day at the site begins at 5:00 a.m.:
■ A job that runs at 11:00 p.m. on September 9th, 2000 has the following dates
(yymmdd format):
■ A job that runs at 3:00 a.m. on September 9, 2000 has the following dates (yymmdd
format):
ODATE
You have seen the term ODAT several times when using date references in conditions
in IN and OUT and DO COND statements. ODAT is a four-letter abbreviation of
ODATE; the term is abbreviated in conditions because the date field of conditions
only allows entry of four characters.
ODATE is a keyword that means Original scheduling date, and it refers to (and
resolves to) the working date on which the job was originally scheduled.
■ The ODATE may in some cases be different than the current working date. For
example, if a job was delayed so that it did not run on its ODATE, but instead ran
on the next working day, then its current working date would be one day later
than its ODATE.
The ODATE allows Control-M (and you) distinguish between different orders of the
same job, and determine which job order of the job applies to which date. The same
applies to conditions.
■ Predefined system date variables have values that are not user-supplied, but are
resolved from values that are system-supplied.
The AutoEdit facility recognizes many system date variables. These are listed and
defined in the JCL and AutoEdit facility chapter of the Control-M for z/OS User Guide.
However, rather than considering them individually, it is easier to think of system
date variables in terms of groupings. Once you have considered the groupings, you
can probably anticipate the correct variable name, as illustrated below:
■ Date variables can be used for system date, original scheduling date, and current
working date.
For example, you saw %%DATE resolve to the system date and %%ODATE
resolve to the original scheduling date. You also could have specified %%RDATE,
which resolves to the current working date.
While there is no special prefix to indicate system dates, original scheduling date
variables have a prefix of %%O, and current working date variables have a prefix
of %%R.
For example, you saw %%ODAY provide the day unit (1 - 13) of the original
scheduling date.
— Some of the more common system date units are %%DAY, %%MONTH,
%%YEAR, %%WDAY, which indicates weekday, and %%WEEK, which
indicates the week number in the year, 1 through 53.
■ Julian day variables can also be requested. These are all suffixed JULDAY.
■ Years in the variables described above are 2-character years. If a 4-character year is
desired, a $ should follow the %%.
Thus far, you have used AutoEdit predefined system variables. These included date
system variables, such as %%ODATE, and non-date system variables, such as
%%ORDERID.
You can now examine the components of the preceding %%SET statement.
%% SET
Control statements are used to define the AutoEdit environment, and to control
AutoEdit processing, in the JCL. Control statements can appear anywhere in the JCL
member to be submitted. When a control statement is detected in a JCL line, for
example, in a JCL remark statement, the line containing the control statement is
submitted as part of the job. If the control statement appears in a non-JCL line, for
example, in a line beginning without a // symbol, the control statement is resolved
and the resolved value can be applied to subsequent JCL lines, but the control
statement is not submitted as part of the job.
Control statement %%SET sets values of user-defined variables. The format of the
statement is:
%%SET %%varname=expression
where:
%%A
Unlike system variables whose names and meanings are predefined and recognized
by Control-M, user-defined variables are defined by the user. You could just as easily
have called this variable %%FRED or, if you wanted a more meaningful name,
%%BACKDATE.
%%$CALCDTE
%%$CALCDTE
In the preceding step, the principal AutoEdit term is %%$CALCDTE. It is true that
the function needed to be placed in a %%SET control statement, and it is also true that
the returned result needed to be represented by a user-defined AutoEdit variable. But
the purpose of this %%SET control statement is to perform the date calculation
function. The control statement and user-defined variable are incidental to the
function.
where
In this step of your exercise, %%$CALCDTE subtracts one day from the ODATE.
NOTE
A related function, %%CALCDATE, makes the same calculation for dates having a 2-
character year, that is, dates resolving to format yymmdd. This function has a 366 day limit on
the number of days that can be added or subtracted. The %%CALCDATE function is
supported for reasons of backward compatibility—it is recommended that %%$CALCDTE be
used whenever possible.
%%$JULIAN
You can examine one more function before exiting the JCL.
6 Add the following lines below the %%$CALCDTE function in the JCL:
%%$JULIAN date
where date must be, or must resolve to, a date in format yyyymmdd.
In your exercise, you know that %%A, which is defined in the preceding
%%$CALCDTE function, resolves to your ODATE -1. Therefore, %%B should
resolve to the Julian version of this date.
9 Go to the Active Environment screen, request the Job Order Execution History
screen for the job, then request the Sysout Viewing screen for the job execution,
and check the Sysout of the job. Page down to the middle section of the Sysout.
**** END OF DATA SET - ADDED BY CONTROL M **** DO NOT USE IT IN YOUR PROGRAM !!
1 //M21 JOB APERLMAN,CLASS=A,
// MSGCLASS=X,NOTIFY=M21,
// MSGLEVEL=(1,1)
//*---- SUBMITTED BY CONTROL-M (FROM MEMLIB) ODATE=010131
//*---- SCHEDULE CTM.TEST.SCHEDULE(IDGS3)
//*---- JCL CTM.TEST.JCL(IDJOB6)
//*---- CONTROL-M JOB IDENTIFICATION: ORDER ID=001S5 RUN NO.=00001
//* %%SET %%A=%%$CALCDTE 20010202 -1
//* THE VALUE OF A IS: 20010201
//* %%SET %%B=%%$JULIAN 20010201
//* THE VALUE OF B IS: 2001032
2 //S1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
**** END OF DATA SET - ADDED BY CONTROL M **** DO NOT USE IT IN YOUR PROGRAM !!
■ In the first comment statement, ODATE resolves to the current original scheduling
date.
■ In the second and third comment lines, %%A resolved to the previous day.
■ In the fourth comment line, %%B resolved to the Julian value of %%A.
NOTE
All date-related functions with a $ symbol, that is, those beginning %%$, require and return 4-
character years, in format yyyy.
If the variables are system variables, the values, by definition, are automatically
supplied by the system. But if the variables are user-defined variables, the user must
somehow provide the values for those variables. One method of providing those
values is through the job scheduling definition.
For example, suppose the JCL must be provided the ID of a tape that is being
mounted and used. A user-defined AutoEdit variable representing the tape ID can be
placed in the JCL. Then, before the job is run, the value for that tape ID can be
provided in the job scheduling definition.
You can now add a user-defined variable for the tape ID to the JCL, and set its value
in the job scheduling definition. To keep this exercise at a basic level, you will again
place the variable in a comment line in a trivial JCL.
10 Edit the JCL of IDJOB7, add the following comment line, and then exit the JCL:
You can now edit the job scheduling definition for IDJOB7.
Notice that the General Parameters section contains a field called SET VAR.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
MEMNAME IDJOB7 MEMLIB CTM.TEST.JCLLIB
OWNER ID TASKTYPE JOB PREVENT-NCT2 DFLT N
APPL GROUP IDGRP5
DESC THIS IS IDJOB7
OVERLIB STAT CAL
SCHENV SYSTEM ID NJE NODE
SET VAR
CTB STEP AT NAME TYPE
DOCMEM IDJOB7 DOCLIB
===========================================================================
The SET VAR statement is used for specifying a value for a user-defined AutoEdit
variable. Assume that the ID of the tape is 046453.
13 Exit the job scheduling definition, and then exit the Job List screen. Save the
changes in the Exit Option window of the Job List screen.
Before running the job, take a look at the AutoEdit Simulation facility.
Furthermore, when the syntax is correct, you may want to verify that the AutoEdit
statements return the desired results. For example, you may want to check that you
specified the correct AutoEdit date variables for a job that performs end-of-year
processing.
The AutoEdit Simulation facility, utility CTMAESIM tests AutoEdit syntax and JCL
setup. This utility simulates the actions of the Control-M submission mechanism,
which performs AutoEdit processing and JCL setup, and produces a printed report of
the process.
Utility CTMAESIM can operate in either JCL Library mode or Scheduling Library
mode:
■ In JCL Library mode, the utility checks the AutoEdit statements in the JCL of the
job, but not in the job scheduling definition.
This mode becomes operational when you specify a JCL member in the utility
panel; in this case, the table that contains the job scheduling definition is unknown
to the utility, and the job scheduling definition therefore remains unchecked.
■ In Scheduling Library mode, the utility not only checks the AutoEdit statements in
the JCL of the job, it also checks the impact that SET VAR statements in the job
scheduling definition have on the JCL.
This mode becomes operational when you specify a job scheduling definition in
the utility panel. Because the job scheduling definition points to the JCL member,
both the job scheduling definition and the JCL can be, and are, checked.
NOTE
If Option 6 from the IOA Primary Option Menu does not bring you to the Utilities menu,
ask your INCONTROL administrator to assist you in accessing the Utilities menu from
TSO, or advise you how to access utility CTMAESIM directly.
The IOA Online Utilities menu is displayed. The particular options displayed in
the menu depend on the INCONTROL products available at your site, as well as
any limitations your INCONTROL administrator may have placed on the display.
The IOA Online Utilities menu, and available Control-M utilities, are described in
detail in the INCONTROL for z/OS Utilities Guide.
16 Fill in the SCHEDULING LIBRARY MODE parameters with the name of the
scheduling library, table, and job scheduling definition, and enter YES in the
ENTER YES TO CONTINUE field. Do not change the default values in the
GLOBAL LIBRARY, WDATE and ODATE fields; and type LIST in the FUNCTION
field.
The screen should look similar to the following before you press Enter:
04.52.06 AES190I IDJOB7 RETRIEVED FROM TABLE IDGS3 IN SCHEDULE LIBRARY CTM.
04.52.06 AESL53I IDJOB7 RETRIEVED FROM MEMLIB LIBRARY CTM.TEST.JCL
Notice that in the comment line you added to the JCL, the user-defined AutoEdit
variable is resolved to, or replaced by, the value provided by the SET VAR statement
in the job scheduling definition:
You can now see that if you run this job, the user-defined variable will resolve
correctly.
AutoEdit terms can also be specified in the following statements in the job scheduling
definition:
File names for SYSOUT and DO SYSOUT handling can be specified using
AutoEdit variables whenever SYSOUT Option F, the copy to file or sysout
archiving option, is specified, as shown in this example
AutoEdit variables can be used in the MEMLIB and OVERLIB fields to specify the
appropriate library, as shown in this example
OVERLIB CTM.LIB.JCL.OVER%%ODATE
You can provide these values through an AutoEdit member identified by the
AutoEdit control statements %%LIBSYM and %%MEMSYM.
17 Create a member IDTAPE in a work library. For purposes of this exercise, you will
call the library CTM.TEST.AUTOEDIT.
%%BRANCH01_TAPE=5554444
%%BRANCH02_TAPE=3336666
%%BRANCH03_TAPE=7654321
A Delete the comment lines, that is, those containing AutoEdit terms, that you
added earlier.
B Add the following statements to the JCL, then exit the JCL:
20 Enter the AutoEdit Simulation utility and run the simulation for IDJOB6. The
results of the simulation look similar to those shown in Figure 45. Observe the
resolved values for the two //* TAPE ID PROVIDED: statements.
14.50.17 AES190I IDJOB6 RETRIEVED FROM TABLE IDGS3 IN SCHEDULE LIBRARY CTM
14.50.17 AESL53I IDJOB6 RETRIEVED FROM MEMLIB LIBRARY CTM.TEST.JCL
%%term=value
%%term=value
%%GO lblnam %%GO lblnam can then be used to pass control to the location
identified by the %%LABEL lblnam statement.
%%IF Provide the AutoEdit facility with Boolean “IF” logic capability.
%%THEN These statements, in conjunction with control statements %%GOTO
%%ELSE and %%LABEL, permit branching based on submission time criteria.
%%ENDIF Job steps, DD statements, and so on are easily excluded or included.
%%IF conditional-expression
statements
[%%ELSE]
statements
%%ENDIF
%%RANGE Limits the handling of AutoEdit functions and variables to a
specified column range. Contents of all columns outside the range
remain unchanged.
The basic rule of AutoEdit resolution is that when a term contains multiple variables,
those variables are resolved from right to left.
■ Two variables can be joined to form a single complex variable by linking them
together, as follows:
%%BACKUP_TAPE%%ODAY%
■ Two variables can be concatenated into two distinct but joined variables by placing
a period between them.
%%ODAY.%%OMONTH
■ Two variables can be concatenated into two distinct variables joined by a period,
by placing two periods between them.
%%ODAY..%%OMONTH
CTM%%MODE%%.01.JCL
Operators
AutoEdit operators are used to add or subtract values from AutoEdit variables in the
JCL. These operators can only be specified in a %%SET statement. Valid AutoEdit
operators are shown in the following table:
where
Only one operator can be specified in each %%SET statement. Increase the number of
generations (%%GENERATION_NUMBER) by one, as follows:
Thus far, all the user-defined variables that you have used in this chapter have been
Local variables. A characteristic of Local variables is that values given to them by a
job do not carry beyond that job—those values cannot be accessed or changed by a
different job.
By contrast, Global variables are stored in the IOA Global Variable database and can
be accessed and updated by other jobs.
Shortly, you will create Global variables and demonstrate their global nature. Before
doing that, however, you should observe the local nature of the Local variables.
21 Enter the job scheduling definition for IDJOB6 and add the following SET VAR
statements, and then exit the job scheduling definition:
22 Enter the job scheduling definition for IDJOB7 and delete the SET VAR definition.
The job scheduling definition now contains no SET VAR definition.
25 After job IDJOB6 has successfully ended, order the job scheduling definition of job
IDJOB7.
26 Check the results of the job orders in the Active Environment screen. Job IDJOB6
ended “OK”, but job IDJOB7 was not submitted.
The log indicates that IDJOB7 was not submitted because variable %%LOC1 could
not be resolved. Since IDJOB6, which successfully executed, defined a value for
%%LOC1, it is clear that IDJOB7 has no access to this value. This is because
%%LOC1 is a local variable.
28 Edit the JCL for job IDJOB7, delete the following comment line, and then exit the
JCL:
29 Rerun job IDJOB7 through Option R in the Active Environment screen. The second
run of IDJOB7 ended “OK”.
The job order line appears as follows in the Active Environment screen:
30 Request SYSOUT of job IDJOB7, using Option V in the Active Environment screen
followed by Option S in the Job Order Execution History screen, and scroll down
to find the value for BRANCH01_TAPE.
Clearly, the SET VAR statement in IDJOB6 did not impact the value in the external
member, which indicates that %%BRANCH01_TAPE is a local variable.
Now that you’ve seen the limitations of Local variables, take a look at Global
Variables.
%%SET statements in the JCL, and SET VAR or DO SET statements in the job
scheduling definition, enable Control-M jobs and SMART Table Entities to define
Global variables and place them in the IOA Global Variable database. These variables
can then be used and accessed by other jobs. These jobs can use %%SET, SET VAR
and/or DO SET statements to change or update the variable values in the database.
You can now define some Global variables in the job scheduling definition and JCL of
job IDJOB8.
31 Enter the job scheduling definition for IDJOB8 and add the following SET VAR
statements. When you define a SET VAR statement and press Enter, a new, blank
SET VAR statement is opened to allow definition of the next SET VAR statement.
33 Add the following statements to the JCL of job IDJOB8, and then exit the JCL:
35 Check the sysout of IDJOB8. The following comments appear in the sysout:
From this sysout, you can see that the AutoEdit variables resolved as they should.
However, because they appeared in the job scheduling definition and the JCL of
the same job, you have not yet demonstrated their global nature.
You will demonstrate the global nature of these variables shortly, but first, take a
look at Global variable syntax.
■ A Global variable is assigned an owner at time of creation. This owner can be the
component that creates the variable, such as the job, or it can be any other
component in the database, such as the job, group, application, or even Control-M.
The IOA Global Variable Database has a hierarchical structure to reflect this
component hierarchy.
■ Backslashes are used to describe the hierarchical structure of the IOA Global
Variable Database, much like they are used to describe the directory and
subdirectory structure in Unix and DOS.
The full path of the IOA Global Variable database is indicated as follows:
%%\product\application\group\job\variablename
■ Paths can be specified using the same rules and shortcuts that are available with
directories and subdirectories, instead of the full path:
— A job or SMART Table Entity can assign a Global variable to itself by specifying
a backslash immediately following the %% symbol.
— Paired dots followed by a backslash (..\) indicate movement to the next level up.
Based on the above, you can see that the variables created in IDJOB8 SET VAR
statements have the following owners:
(The paired dots moved the variable up the hierarchy to the group to
which IDJOB8 belongs.)
%%..\IDJOB9\ Global variable %%\VAR1 is owned by job IDJOB9.
VAR1=CCC
(The paired dots move the variable up the hierarchy to group
IDGRP3. The \IDJOB9 moves the variable down the hierarchy from
IDGRP3 to job IDJOB9.)
■ Two variables with the same name but different paths are different variables. This
is comparable to the fact that two Unix or DOS files with the same name but
different paths are different files.
■ If the particular path has no Group and/or no Application, for example, the job
does not belong to a group or application, Control-M utilizes the keyword values
NO_APPL and NO_GROUP in the path, as needed.
36 Enter the job scheduling definition for IDJOB9 and do the following:
D Add a DO SHOUT statement whose destination is your user ID, and which
contains the following message text:
E Add a second DO SHOUT statement whose destination is your user ID, and
which contains the following message text:
F Add a third DO SHOUT statement whose destination is your userID, and which
contains the following message text:
38 Check the Sysout of the job. The Sysout contains the following:
These values clearly indicate that these variables have been globally accessed. You
can demonstrate that these variables can be globally updated.
The job scheduling definition for job IDJOB9 will now update the values for the
Global variables previously defined by IDJOB8.
40 Enter the job scheduling definition for job IDJOB8 and delete the SET VAR
statements. Then exit the job scheduling definition.
You should anticipate the following results of these successive job runs.
■ The SET VAR statements in job IDJOB9 have updated the Global variables with
the new values.
■ Because the SET VAR statements were removed from job IDJOB8, this job
should not have changed the values that were newly set by IDJOB9.
■ Therefore, you can expect that the JCL of job IDJOB8 used the new values set by
IDJOB9.
43 Check the sysout of job IDJOB8. The following comments should appear in the
sysout:
The above values clearly indicate that Global variables can be globally updated.
■ All JCL setup operations are performed during job submission. At this time,
Control-M processes the JCL of the job line by line.
■ Control-M scans each line for AutoEdit terms, which are identified by the %%
symbol prefix, and, unless otherwise instructed, tries to resolve them. Control-M
resolves all AutoEdit terms in one line before it moves to the next line.
■ All changes made during JCL processing, such as variable resolution, are retained
only until Control-M has finished submission of the job.
■ Control-M resolves system variables by taking the values from the system.
■ Control-M resolves Global variables by taking the values from the IOA Global
Variable database.
Values for Local user-defined variables can be taken from any of several possible
sources, as described below. When Control-M detects a Local user-defined variable in
the JCL line being processed, it checks these possible sources in a specific order until a
value is found for the variable. Control-M creates a user-defined variable
environment in which it places each user-defined variable and its value.
The potential sources for Local user-defined variable values are listed below in the
order in which they are generally checked:
These statements can be specified in JCL lines, including JCL comment lines. They
assign values to variables.
These statements can be specified in the job scheduling definition. They can be
used to define new variables, or to assign new values to existing variables.
These members define local variables and specify their values. Members are
searched in the order they appear in the JCL.
These members define local variables and specify their values. Members are
searched in the order they appear in the JCL.
The order in which Control-M checks potential sources for possible AutoEdit variable
resolution is important because once Control-M has resolved a variable, it generally
stops checking other sources. Potential values from other sources are ignored, and
resolved values are not overridden except by %%SET statements in subsequent JCL
lines.
Because JCL is processed sequentially one line at a time, the line being processed can
only be affected by external members and %%SET control statements that have
previously been processed. If a line contains an undefined variable that is only
defined in a subsequent line, the variable cannot be resolved.
By default, if Control-M cannot resolve a variable, it stops submission of the job. This
default, however, can be overridden by specifying the %%RESOLVE control
statement with a value of NO or OFF.
This completes the steps in this chapter of the Control-M for z/OS Getting Started
Guide.
Review
In this chapter you
■ looked at and used AutoEdit system variables (date and nondate variables) in the
JCL of a job
■ learned about the difference between System date, Current Working date, and
ODATE
■ used the AutoEdit %%SET control statement in your JCL, and learned about other
AutoEdit control statements
■ used the SET VAR statement in the job scheduling definition to supplied values to
user-defined variables in the JCL of your job
■ learned the syntax of, and defined and updated Global AutoEdit variables
Recommended Reading
Before continuing with the next chapter, you should read the following in the
Control-M for z/OS User Guide:
6
6 Navigating The Active Environment
This chapter includes the following topics:
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
A Closer Look At Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Displaying the List of Available Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Changing Active Environment Display Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Adding a Note to a Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Displaying Table Names for Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Displaying Job Dependencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Displaying Execution Information from Job Runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Job Order Execution History Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Sysout Viewing Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Forcing an OK Status for a Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Displaying Statistics for a Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Displaying Jobs Belonging to a Specific SMART Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Recommended Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Overview
You are now going to look at and use some additional options, screens and
capabilities of the Active Environment.
■ look more closely at the fields in the Show Screen Filter window, define a new
filter, and display a list of available filters
■ add a note to a job in the Zoom screen and display the content of the note in the
Active Environment screen
■ display the scheduling library and table names of jobs in the Active Environment
screen
■ display the list of dependent jobs, both predecessors and successors, in the Job
Dependency Network screen
■ display the execution history of job orders in the Job Order Execution History
screen, and display job Sysout information in the Sysout Viewing screen
■ display the Table to which a job belongs in the Active Environment screen
Preparations
In this chapter, you will be using the following, and their respective JCLs:
■ Each job, from IDJOB2 through IDJOB5, and the table IDGS2 SMART Table Entity
■ ensure that job IDJOB1 in table IDGS1 does not require manual confirmation
— in the JCL of job IDJOB3, the step returns a condition code of C0008
— in the JCL of job IDJOB5, all steps return a condition code of C0000
■ ensure that batch utility CTMJSA has been run in the current working day
If CTMJSA is not run as part of New Day processing, run it yourself or request that
it be run by your administrator
2 Enter the Active Environment screen and activate the filter IDGS. The following
screen is displayed:
Commands: OPt DIsplay Show HIstory RBal REFresh Auto Jobstat SHPF Note Table
OPt command toggles between Commands and Options display 14.13.03
These results are not surprising. Job IDJOB3 did not end OK due to condition code
C0008. And because of the defined job dependencies, the remaining jobs have a status
of Wait Schedule.
You can now take a closer look at filters in the Active Environment screen. In
Chapter 1, “Introduction to Control-M,” you created filter IDGS, and in subsequent
chapters, you activated this filter by entering the SHOW IDGS command.
To display the filter criteria of this same filter for editing, you should add the
keyword EDIT at the end of the command. You can now edit filter IDGS.
3 Enter the command SHOW IDGS EDIT. The Show Screen Filter window displays
the filtering criteria for filter IDGS.
You have already seen that you choose whether to save a new filter by specifying
Y, or N, in the Save field, and pressing Enter. You can use this same field to choose
whether to save changes to an existing filter.
NOTE
Specifying N (No) does not cancel changes made to a filter. It only means that they will not be
permanently saved. They will, however, remain in memory. This applies even if you are
editing a new filter, that is, specifying N and exiting the filter leaves the new filter in memory.
To cancel changes to a filter, close the window by pressing PF04/PF16 to enter the RESET
command. The changes are canceled regardless of the value specified in the Save field.
The purpose in filtering the display was to ensure that the screen only displays those
jobs that you used in your exercises. You took two steps to accomplish this purpose
1. You ensured that all jobs in the exercises belonged to a Group prefixed by IDGRP.
2. You then filtered the display based on this Group name prefix of IDGRP.
You could have accomplished the purpose using the following filter criteria:
■ Because you prefixed each member name with IDGS, you could have filtered using
that Memname prefix.
■ If you ran no other jobs, you could have filtered on Owner ID.
Clearly, filtering on Odate would not have accomplished your purpose. However,
Odate is useful for filtering when you only want to see jobs scheduled for a specific
Odate.
The middle portion of the window is divided into three columns. These columns are
all status related. For example, you can include (or exclude) jobs that have a Wait
Schedule, Wait Confirmation, and/or Ended “OK” status. To learn the details of the
relationship between these status columns, and their header topics, In Process,
Ended, State, refer to the description in the Control-M for z/OS User Guide.
If you filter on such values as a common member name or group prefix, you are likely
to display related or connected jobs. By contrast, if you filter only on a status such as
Wait Schedule, you are likely to see completely unrelated jobs in the display. This,
however, is still very valuable. An operator, for example, may need to check which
jobs still have a Wait Schedule or a Wait Confirmation status.
Multiple filtering criteria can be specified. All specified criteria must be satisfied. You
can, for example, specify a filter on your Owner name and on a Wait Schedule status.
This way, you can see only your jobs that are Waiting Scheduling.
The filter window for filter IDGRP is currently displayed. You can, of course, close it
without making changes. And, as mentioned above, you can make changes and either
save them or keep them in memory.
But you can also use this filter as the basis for another filter by making the desired
changes and specifying a new name in the Filter field.
You can define a new filter that shows only jobs with a group name prefix of IDGRP
that have a Wait Schedule status. Name this filter IDWS, as described in the following
steps.
8 In the status sections leave the In Process value (Y) and the Wait Sched value (Y)
unchanged. Also, leave all values in the State column unchanged.
A In the In Process column, change all values except those of In Process and Wait
Schedule to N.
The window is displayed as follows. This illustration shows the changes from the
previous filter indicated in bold.
10 Press Enter to exit the window. The Active Environment screen is displayed with
the newly defined filter.
Site-defined defaults determine whether the last filter used, or the DEFAULT filter,
will be activated upon reentry to the Active Environment screen.
If you are unsure of a filter name, you can display the list of available filters in the
Display Filters window. The display includes all globally available filters as well as
filters that you have defined.
You can then select a filter from the Display Filters window for activation or editing.
11 Enter the command SHOW ? in the COMMAND field. The Display Filters
window is opened, displaying the list of available filters.
Field Description
NAME Name of the filter as it appears in the General or User profile.
DESCRIPTION Description of the filter (if provided).
NOTE
Control-M supplied filters do not display descriptions.
You can select a filter from the list for activation or editing by specifying the
appropriate option in the O (option) field to the left of the filter name: Valid options
are
Option Description
S (SELECT) Activate the filter. The display of jobs in the Active Environment
screen is filtered according to the filter criteria.
E (EDIT) Display the filter's filtering criteria in the Show Screen Filter window
to enable editing of the filter.
12 Enter S in the OPTION field by filter IDGS to activate filter IDGS. The window is
closed, but the Active Environment screen display has not changed, because you
are at the bottom of the display.
13 Use the PFKeys to scroll to the top of the screen. The Active Environment screen
display conforms to the criteria of filter IDGS.
NOTE
To deactivate all filters, that is, to display the full Active Environment screen without any
filter showing, you can enter the command SHOW nonfilter EDIT, where nonfilter is NOT the
name of an existing filter. Delete the name from the Filter field, and press Enter.
14 Enter DI A in the COMMAND field. The All Fields display type of the Active
Environment screen is displayed.
Notice that this display type includes many fields not displayed in the Default
display type. Because of the larger number of lines displayed for each job, each screen
display shows far fewer jobs than the default display type.
You have not displayed the Net display type, DI N. This display type is generally
useful only in the Job Dependency Network screen, which is discussed, below,
under the topic “Displaying Job Dependencies.”
Next, you will see how to add a note to one of your jobs.
Notes are added to job orders in the Zoom screen. Remember that before making any
changes in the Zoom screen, you must first place the job in Held status.
16 Place job IDJOB6 in Held status and display the Zoom screen for the job by
entering Option H, and pressing Enter until the job has a status of Held Wait
Schedule. Then enter option Z).
17 Enter command NOTE in the COMMAND field of the Zoom screen. A Note line is
opened inside the Zoom screen between two lines of equal signs, as follows:
When you enter text in one line, a new blank line is opened to enable you to enter
more text.
18 In the NOTE line, enter the text: THIS NOTE COULD BE IMPORTANT. BUT
IT’S NOT.
===========================================================================
NOTE THIS NOTE COULD BE IMPORTANT. BUT IT'S NOT.
NOTE
===========================================================================
Save this new note by typing SAVE in the command line and pressing Enter.
A Note flag, showing the word ***NOTE** in the STATUS field for IDJOB6,
indicates that the job has an appended note.
Commands: OPt DIsplay Show HIstory RBal REFresh Auto Jobstat SHPF Note Table
OPt command toggles between Commands and Options display 21.04.46
Observe the Note command in the list of commands at the bottom of the screen.
20 Enter NOTE in the COMMAND field. The text of the note is displayed in the
Status field.
Commands: OPt DIsplay Show HIstory RBal REFresh Auto Jobstat SHPF Note Table
OPt command toggles between Commands and Options display 21.04.46
21 Enter NOTE in the COMMAND field again. The text of the note is hidden.
This is because the NOTE command acts as a toggle between displaying and hiding
the text of each note appended to a job order.
23 Enter the TABLE command. The name of the scheduling library and table are
displayed for each job in the Status field.
24 Enter the TABLE command again. The names of the scheduling libraries and tables
are hidden.
25 Enter REFRESH in the COMMAND field. A message indicates that the display has
been refreshed.
Toggle to the list of options at the bottom of the Active Environment screen, so you
can see exactly which option you will use to display the Job Dependency Network
screen.
26 Enter OPT in the COMMAND field. The list of available options is displayed.
One of these options is N (Net). It displays the list of dependencies for a job; that is,
the list of predecessor and successor job of the selected job. Specify this option for
job IDJOB5.
27 Enter N in the OPTION field next to IDJOB5. The Job Dependency Network screen
is displayed (with display type N).
Opt: ? Why L Log H Hold Z Zoom R Rerun A Activate O Force OK V View Sysout
N Net D Del F Free S Stat G Group U Undelete J JCL Edit C Confirm 10.44.26
The Job Dependency Network screen is a special case of the Active Environment
screen. It indicates predecessor and successor jobs, and the levels of those jobs,
relative to the selected job.
■ An arrow appears beside the job for which the N option was requested. This job is
the starting point for looking at predecessor and successor jobs.
■ Immediately below IDJOB5 is its the only successor job, IDJOB6, with a level
number of +1. The plus sign indicates that IDJOB6 is a successor job; the integer 1
indicates that IDJOB6 is only one level removed from IDJOB5, that is, it is an
immediate successor.
■ Above IDJOB5 is the list of predecessor jobs, each displaying a negative level
number. The minus signs in the level numbers indicate that these are predecessor
jobs of IDJOB5. The integer in the level number indicates the number of levels the
job is removed from IDJOB5. For example, IDJOB4, level -1, is the immediate
predecessor; IDJOB2, level -3, is three levels away from IDJOB5.
■ Jobs appear in the screen in job flow order, from earliest predecessor to latest
successor.
Job dependencies are determined according the prerequisite IN and OUT conditions
of the job. DO COND conditions are ignored because they are conditional rather than
constant.
The screen also displays the following information about the jobs, much of it also
found in the Zoom screen:
To refresh the display with the latest information, enter the REFRESH command as you
did before displaying the screen. The time of the last refresh is displayed on the top
line of the Job Dependency Network screen.
You can change display types in the Job Dependency Network screen, but there is
little point in doing so because it is this display type that shows the dependency
levels.
28 Press PF03/PF15 to exit from the Job Network Dependency screen back to the Active
Environment screen.
29 Enter option V for job IDJOB1. The Job Order Execution History screen for IDJOB1
is displayed.
NOTE
This facility requires that Control-M/Restart be operational at your site. If
Control-M/Restart is not installed, skip to “Forcing an OK Status for a Job” below.
The following information about the job is displayed at the top of the screen:
NOTE
The above display type is the Default display type. Your INCONTROL administrator can
create additional display types. To change display types, entering the command DI x, as you
did to change display types in the Active Environment screen.
30 Enter option S for the job run of IDJOB1. The Sysout Viewing screen is displayed.
Figure 49 illustration is obviously more than one screen length. It shows the full
sysout.
You can scroll down, up, right, and left through the sysout.
The sysout is divided into sections that you can navigate using the N (NEXT) and P
(PREV) commands. The following line appears at the end of each section:
**** END OF DATA SET - ADDED BY CONTROL M **** DO NOT USE IT IN YOUR PROGRAM !!
31 Enter N in the COMMAND field. The next section of the sysout is displayed.
32 Enter N in the COMMAND field again. The next section of the sysout is displayed.
COMMANDS: LEFT, RIGHT, FIND str, FIND str PREV, N n, P n, END 18.17.39
33 Exit the Sysout Viewing screen and then exit the Job Order Execution History
screen. The Active Environment screen is displayed.
There may be situations, however, in which you determine that even though a
particular job step had an error, the job should still end OK, that is, where the error is
not serious enough to require an Ended Not OK status for the job.
In such a situation, you can use the O (Force OK) option in the Active Environment
screen to change a job status to Ended OK. as explained below.
35 Free IDJOB3. The status of IDJOB3 changes to Ended “OK” Forced OK.
In the following screen illustration, the status of IDJOB3 has already changed, and
IDJOB4 has been changed to Wait Submission.
For each computer with statistics on the job, an Average Statistics line is displayed
followed by individual job or SMART Table Entity statistics for each execution:
■ The Average Statistics Line contains the SYSID and SMF ID of the computer for
which statistics are calculated, as well as the average ELAPSED, CPU and SRB time
for the job on that computer.
■ The Individual Execution and/or SMART Table Entity Statistics Line contains the
JOBID, Start time, End time, Elapsed time, CPU time, and SRB time for the
execution or SMART Table Entity.
But through specification of the T (Table) line option, you can restrict the display to
those jobs belonging to the same table, independent of filters. This option applies only
to a SMART Table Entity and jobs in a SMART Table.
38 Enter SHOW nonsense EDIT. The filter window is displayed with the default edits
set, and the nonsense name in the Filter field.
39 Blank out the Filter name and press Enter. The Active Environment screen is
displayed with the default filter edits, that is, the equivalent of no filter.
40 Scroll to the top of the screen. The full Active Environment is displayed.
41 Find the listing of one of the jobs in the SMART Table (IDJOB2 through IDJOB5),
and enter Option T for the job. The Table screen is displayed.
Opt: ? Why L Log H Hold Z Zoom R Rerun A Activate O Force OK V View Sysout
N Net D Del F Free S Stat G Group U Undelete J JCL Edit C Confirm 00.15.01
The Table screen is a variation of the Active Environment screen. It contains the
SMART Table Entity, and all jobs belonging to the SMART Table of the selected job.
The name of the SMART Table appears in the top line of the screen. The display can
be further filtered if desired.
This completes the steps in this chapter of the Control-M for z/OS Getting Started
Guide.
Review
In this chapter you
■ looked more closely at the fields in the Show Screen Filter window, defined a new
filter, and displayed a list of available filters
■ added a note to a job in the Zoom screen and displayed the contents of the note in
the Active Environment screen
■ displayed the scheduling library and table names of jobs in the Active
Environment screen
■ displayed the list of dependent jobs (predecessor and successor jobs) in the Job
Dependency Network screen
■ displayed the execution history of job orders in the Job Order Execution History
screen, and display job sysout in the Sysout Viewing screen
■ displayed the SMART Table to which a job belongs in the Active Environment
screen
Recommended Reading
Before continuing with the next chapter, you should read the following in the
Control-M for z/OS User Guide:
In Chapter 2
■ information related to filters and filtering the display in the Active Environment
screen
■ information about adding a note in the Zoom screen and displaying the note in the
Active Environment screen
■ the Job Order Execution History screen, and the Sysout Viewing screen
■ any other information about the Active Environment screen that you have not yet
read
7
Job Ordering and New Day
7
Processing
This chapter includes the following topics:
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Job Ordering Through Utility CTMJOB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
New Day Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
User Daily Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Defining the JCL of a User Daily Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Defining the Date Control Record for a User Daily Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Defining the Job Scheduling Definition of a User Daily Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Additional Points About User Daily Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Job Ordering Through Online Utility CTMJOBRQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Other Methods of Job Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Recommended Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Overview
In the previous chapters of this guide, you used the O (Order) or F (Force) option in
the Job List screen to order individual jobs. These same options are available in the
Table List screen to order or force all the jobs in a particular table.
There are, however, other methods of job ordering, In this chapter of the guide, you
will look at job ordering through the following methods:
You will also see a brief description of several other methods of job ordering.
NOTE
Only relevant DD statements are illustrated in the sample JCLs for the exercises in this
chapter. Other DD statements, such as DALOG and DACNDF, are not shown.
Preparations
No special preparations are required for this chapter of the guide.
Assume that you want to order jobs IDJOB1, IDJOB2, and IDJOB3 in table IDGS1.
There are quite a few ways to do this using CTMJOB. Several of these ways are
illustrated in the following pages.
NOTE
Specify the appropriate library in place of CTM.TEST.SCHEDULE in each of the alternatives.
■ The desired job scheduling definitions are specified in ORDER control statements
included in a DAJOB DD statement.
■ Each ORDER control statement identifies a library, table and job scheduling
definition. To avoid repetition of the scheduling library name in each ORDER
statement, the library name was identified in a preceding DD statement.
■ The last ORDER statement requested a FORCE. Therefore, job IDJOB3 will be
forced regardless of its basic scheduling criteria.
The CTMJOB utility generally uses a DAJOB DD statement to identify the tables
and/or jobs to schedule, although an exception will be shown later in this chapter.
But the ORDER statements do not have to be included in line in the DAJOB
statement. They can, instead, be placed in a parameter member pointed to by the
DAJOB statement.
The following steps show how to create an alternative definition for CTMJOB that
places the order statements in a PARM member (IDPRM1).
NOTE
Be sure to specify an appropriate PARM library in place of CTM.TEST.PARM.
3 Specify the following contents in the IDPRM1 member in the PARM library:
The above definitions for CTMJOB achieve the same results. The advantage of the
second method, using the PARM member, is that you do not have to change the
JCL if you want to change the list of jobs to be ordered. You merely need to change
the contents of the PARM member.
If the table being scheduled is a SMART Table, you can specify scheduling RBCs to
include or ignore in the ORDER statements.
//DAJOB DD *
ORDER DDNAME=CTM.TEST.SCHEDULE MEM=IDGS2 ODATE=ODATE
SELECT RBC EXERCISES
IGNORE RBC EOW
IGNORE RBC EOM
//
Now that you have seen several instances of using ORDER statements, take a closer
look at the ORDER statement syntax.
ORDER{DSN=schedlib|DDNAME=dd|DD=dd},{MEMBER=table|MEM=table}[,JOB=jobnm]
[,ODATE=date|DATE=date][,ODATEOPT={VALUE|VAL|RUN}][,FORCE]
[SELECT RBC rbcname1]
[IGNORE RBC rbcname2]
■ Immediately following the ORDER statement, you must specify either the name of
scheduling library (in a DSN parameter), or the name of a DD statement that
identifies a scheduling library (in a DD or DD name parameter).
■ Jobname is optional. If not specified, all jobs in the table are ordered.
■ A date parameter, such as ODATE or DATE, is optional if a date control record has
been defined.
■ The FORCE parameter is optional. It forces a job even if its basic scheduling criteria
are not satisfied.
■ IGNORE and SELECT RBC statements are relevant for ‘SMART Table scheduling
only.
For more information on the parameters in the ORDER statement, see the description
of the format of ORDER statements in the Control-M chapter of the INCONTROL for
z/OS Utilities Guide.
Thus far, all instances of DD statement DAJOB included, or pointed to, a PARM
member that includes ORDER statements. However, DAJOB statements can be
defined without ORDER statements.
//DAJOB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=CTM.TEST.SCHEDULE(IDGS1)
// DD DISP=SHR,DSN=CTM.TEST.SCHEDULE(IDGS3)
//
Using this method, the schedule library and table is specified directly in DAJOB
DD statement. This method provides no advantage over in-line specification of
ORDER statements. It has the disadvantage that you cannot request specific jobs,
only whole tables.
However, this method is of very limited usefulness because it can only be used to
order a single table or job.
If you were to submit any of the defined JCLs for CTMJOB, the specified job
scheduling definitions would be ordered. However, instead of submitting the JCLs,
for this exercise you should move on to the topic of User Daily jobs.
// JCLLIB ORDER=your.proclib.PROCLIB
// INCLUDE MEMBER=IOASET
//GTSTRT5 EXEC CTMDAILY,
// DATEREC=DATERECU <== CHANGE
//DAJOB DD *
ORDER DDNAME=SCHDLIB MEM=IDGS1 JOB=IDJOB1
ORDER DDNAME=SCHDLIB MEM=IDGS1 JOB=IDJOB2
ORDER DDNAME=SCHDLIB MEM=IDGS1 JOB=IDJOB3
The DAJOB DD statement looks familiar because these parameters are ultimately
passed to CTMJOB. Therefore, any syntax that is valid for passing parameters to
program CTMJOB, as demonstrated in previous steps in this chapter, can be used in
the User Daily job.
But there is a difference. Note that the order statements do not contain date
parameters as they did in the previous steps. Instead the date information is provided
by a record called the Date Control record. You can now identify the Date Control
record to the job, and then create this Date Control record, using the DATEREC
parameter in the procedure that points to the member containing the Date Control
record.
Now note the statement DATEREC=DATERCU. You should examine this item for a
moment.
// DATEREC=DATERECU
to this statement:
// DATEREC=IDDCRU
The Date Control record contains an example date that is repeated several times in
specific columns. The integrity of these columns must be maintained. The date must
appear in the Date Control record of a User Daily job in the following columns:
■ 01 - 06
■ 18 - 23
■ 25 - 30
■ 43 - 48
■ 50 - 55
■ 67 - 72
Each User Daily requires its own Date Control record. You will use this model record
to create a Date Control record for the User Daily that you have just created. As you
can see from the step you just performed, you are going to call the Date Control
record for this User Daily IDDCRU.
9 Edit member IDDCRU and, without changing the column positions, replace the
old dates with the current working date. Then exit the member.
Once you have created a Date Control record for a User Daily, Control-M
automatically updates the date information in the record. This is one of the great
advantage of using User Dailies to order jobs. You do not have to update date
information in a DAJOB DD statement each day, because Control-M provides the
updated information through the Date Control record.
This appearance of the date six times (instead of once) in the Date Control record of
a User Daily enables Control-M to manage the process of job ordering. At each
stage in the job ordering process, the current original scheduling date is placed in
one of these fields.
This second Date Control record has a completely different format than the regular
Date Control record. In fact, the Enhanced Daily Checkpointing Date Control record
contains far more than dates.
The following table shows the format of the second Date Control record, which is
required only if Enhanced Daily Checkpointing is used.
10 In your scheduling library, create a new table called IDUDT1, and in it create a job
scheduling definition called IDUDJ1. Define the job scheduling definition as
follows:
A Ensure that the MEMNAME and MEMLIB fields point to the JCL of IDUTJ1.
B Define the Basic Scheduling parameters so that this job scheduling definition
gets ordered every day, for example, by using a DAYS value of ALL.
In this chapter, you saw that you can order a large number of jobs using a single run
of CTMJOB. And you can keep the list of jobs you specified to CTMJOB for reuse.
This eliminates the disadvantages of using online job ordering on regular daily basis.
For daily processing, employing User Daily jobs provides an additional advantage—
the Date Control record. The Date Control record has many advantages, including the
following facts:
However, even the User Daily job must be ordered. There are several ways this can be
done:
■ You can order the User Daily job using the Online facility. But this requires going
into the Control-M Online facility—still a manual intervention.
■ You can use any the other job ordering methods available, some of which will be
described below. But this, too, involves manual intervention.
■ Finally, you can order User Dailies using the New Day procedure. The New Day
procedure is defined and maintained by the Control-M administrator, and is run
once each day as part of New Day processing. When User Dailies are defined to the
New Day procedure, they are automatically ordered each day that their basic
scheduling criteria are satisfied. Most sites use a combination of User Daily jobs
and the New Day procedure to completely automate daily job scheduling.
Because the New Day procedure is defined by the Control-M administrator, and is
discussed in detail in the INCONTROL for z/OS Administrator Guide, it is not
discussed in this guide.
■ Control-M provides two sample User Daily job scheduling definitions in member
MAINDAY in the SCHEDULE library:
■ You can define as many User Daily jobs as you want, with each ordering only
those jobs that you want it to order. This leaves you great flexibility in organizing
your User Daily jobs by whatever system is useful. For example, you can organize
User Dailies according to table, application or group, department, basic and
runtime criteria of the jobs being ordered, or any other useful criteria or
combination or criteria.
■ You can define the scheduling criteria of the User Daily job in any way you wish.
For example, if a certain set of jobs is to be processed at the end of the work day,
there is no need for them to sit in the Active Jobs file all day. Instead, you can
ensure that they are ordered only in the evening or at night, by appropriately
defining the TIME FROM criteria of the User Daily that orders those jobs.
■ If you want, you can define a User Daily to run several maintenance procedures
that you would like run in succession.
■ Although the New Day procedure is ordered only once each day, at start of New
Day, you can order User Daily jobs whenever you wish, and as often as you wish.
Of course, you must ensure that this does not produce unwanted results. If you do
not want multiple orders of the same job, you should not run the User Daily more
than once.
■ You can locate your User Daily jobs as you wish. For example, if all the User Daily
jobs are placed in a single table, then by ordering that table you order all User
Daily jobs that it contains.
11 Enter the Online Utilities menu and request utility CTMJOBRQ, which is Option
M1. The Job Request Utility panel is displayed.
■ specify the name of the library, table and job scheduling definition
To request all jobs in a table, specify an asterisk in the job name field.
The basic scheduling criteria of the jobs are checked against this date to see if the
job should be ordered as requested.
■ indicate if you want the job forced if it should not be scheduled on that particular
run date
This tells Control-M where to look if a calendar name is specified in the job
scheduling definition. Calendars are discussed in Chapter 8, “Additional
Features.”
NOTE
The GROUP field is generally useful in tables whose jobs do not inherit the GROUP from the
table, and only if an * is specified in the JOB NAME field. It limits the jobs ordered to those
belonging to the specified group.
In general, it is probably quicker to use batch utility CTMJOB, especially if you are
ordering several jobs. Perhaps the only advantage of online utility CTMJOBRQ is that
you do not need to know the format of the order statements—you merely fill in the
parameter fields presented in the panel. But CTMJOBRQ is definitely not a powerful
utility.
■ Order and Force options in the Job and Table List screens
■ Batch utility CTMJOB
■ User Daily jobs
■ Online utility CTMJOBRQ
This completes the steps in this chapter of the Control-M for z/OS Getting Started
Guide.
Review
In this chapter you
■ learned to order jobs using batch utility CTMJOB, and learned several different
methods and formats that can be used to let the utility know which jobs to order
■ learned to define the JCL and job scheduling definition for a User Daily job, and
how to define its required Date Control record, and a second, optional Date
Control record for Enhanced Daily Checkpointing
■ took a look at the CTMJOBRQ online utility panel that can be used to order a job
Recommended Reading
Before continuing with the next chapter, it is recommended that you read the
following:
■ In Chapter 3 of the Control-M for z/OS Administrator Guide, the topic “Job Ordering
using New Day Processing.”
■ In Chapter 3 of the Control-M for z/OS Utilities Guide, the description of utility
CTMJOB.
8
8 Additional Features
This chapter includes the following topics:
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Defining Calendars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Structure of the IOA Calendar Definition Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Responding to External Events through CMEM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Event Types Handled by CMEM - Available ON Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Creating On Spool Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Defining On Spool Jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Bringing the Job On Spool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Additional Points About On Spool Jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Batch Utility IOACND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Miscellaneous Facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
History Jobs File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Journaling and Restoration Capability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Accumulating Statistics: Statistics Facility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Automatic Tape Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Simulating Job Execution and Forecasting Resource Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Control-M/Restart Dataset Cleanup Utility CTRCCLN (R2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Reporting Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Exit the Online Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Recommended Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Overview
In this, the final chapter of the Getting Started guide, you will examine several topics
not covered in the other chapters.
■ take a look at, and create a rule in, the CMEM (Control-M Event Manager) facility
You will also learn about the availability of several miscellaneous facilities.
Preparations
To prepare for the exercises in this chapter
■ create a new job scheduling definition in table IDGS4, called IDJOB10, with these
characteristics:
The JCL should contain two steps, S1 and S2, each ending with condition code
C0000. There should be no job scheduling definition for this JCL.
Defining Calendars
A calendar definition is a collection of parameters, in calendar form, that is used to
indicate on what dates of the year scheduling should occur.
Calendars can be very useful for providing basic scheduling criteria, especially when
■ scheduling dates do not follow a pattern, or follow a pattern that is not easily
specified using regular basic scheduling criteria
■ identical detailed and complex scheduling criteria are used for many jobs
Instead of detailing the scheduling criteria in the job scheduling definition of each
job, the scheduling criteria can be specified once in a calendar, and then only the
calendar name need be specified in each the job scheduling definition. An example
might be a HOLIDAYS calendar that consists of a number of disparate dates.
Specifying this once in a calendar is easier and less error-prone than specifying the
same set of dates in many job scheduling definitions.
You can now define a calendar for use in your job scheduling definition.
1 Enter =8 in the COMMAND field. The IOA Calendar Definition Facility entry
panel is displayed.
In the LIBRARY field is the name of the default calendar library at your site. For
purposes of illustration, you will call this library IOA.TEST.CAL.
2 In the CALENDAR field, enter the name IDCAL1 and press Enter.
The Calendar Definition screen is displayed for the current year, as indicated by the
label under the COMMAND field.
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1
01
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
02
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1
03
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 +
04
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1
05
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 +
06
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
TYPE Y IN ALL THE EXECUTION DAYS 11.35.33
3 Tab to the field next to the year label, and specify GETTING STARTED. The
following screen is displayed:
■ It is sectioned according to months. Only the first six months are displayed. You
can page down to display the next six months.
— A number line contains up to 31 digits indicating the dates in the month. A plus
sign indicates the 10th, 20th and 30th.
— Directly below the number line is a blank line used for entering a Y value for
each date on which scheduling should occur.
— Directly above the number line is a line containing Ss. Each S indicates either
Saturday or Sunday, depending on the defaults defined at your site.
Normally, you would try to create a logical, useful calendar. However, to keep the
definition as simple as possible, you will specify Y only for the date on which you are
performing these exercises.
4 Specify Y in the field that represents the current working date. The Calendar
definition should have only one entry:
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1
01
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
02
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1
03
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 +
04
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1
05 Y
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 +
06
-----S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S-------------S---
TYPE Y IN ALL THE EXECUTION DAYS 11.35.33
5 Exit the Calendar Definition screen. The Year List screen is displayed, listing only
the definition you just created.
Exit the Year List screen. The Exit Option window is displayed. Type Y in the
CREATE field and press Enter to save this newly created calendar. You can now use
this calendar in your job scheduling definition.
6 From the IOA Calendar Facility – Entry Panel, type =2 in the COMMAND field
and press Enter to enter the Scheduling Definition facility.
7 Edit the job scheduling definition of IDJOB10. In the DCAL field, type IDCAL1 and
press Enter, and exit the job scheduling definition.
8 Order IDJOB10. The job is scheduled, and executed, because the basic scheduling
criteria defined in calendar IDCAL1 were satisfied.
Although you specified only a calendar name in this exercise, calendars can be
used in conjunction with other basic scheduling parameters.
The relationship between DAYS values and the DCAL calendar depends on the
format of values specified for DAYS parameter. The same holds true of the
relationship between WDAYS values and the WCAL calendar. For details, refer to
the description of parameters DAYS and WDAYS in the parameters chapter of the
Control-M for z/OS User Guide.
■ Both job scheduling definitions and calendar definitions are stored in members in a
library. Therefore, both facilities have corresponding screens at each relevant level.
— The screen at the next level lists the members in the library
■ The Table List screen lists the members in the Scheduling Definition facility.
■ The Calendar List screen lists the members in the Calendar facility.
— The screen at the next level lists the entities in the member.
■ The Job List screen lists the entities in the Scheduling Definition facility
member.
■ The Year List screen lists the entities in the Calendar facility member.
■ The description you provide in the definition screen appears in the Job List screen
or the Year List screen.
The CMEM facility is comprised of a monitor and a subsystem. The facility employs
sets of user-defined rules that specify events to monitor and actions to perform if a
specified event occurs.
9 Enter Option C in the IOA Primary Option menu, or =C from any other location.
The CMEM entry panel is displayed.
CMEM has a library, member, and rule structure much like the library, member, and
job scheduling definition structure of the Scheduling Definition facility.
This is reflected in the similarity between the Scheduling Definition entry panel and
the CMEM entry panel, which has entry fields for LIBRARY, TABLE, and RULE.
Other screens of the CMEM facility also correspond to those of the Scheduling
Definition facility:
NOTE
Many commands and options in the corresponding screens are also the same.
You can now create a CMEM table and rule. Use a test CMEM library if one exists, or
use the default CMEM rule library. For the purposes of this guide, you will call this
library CMEM.TEST.RULES.
10 In the CMEM entry panel, enter CIDM1 in the TABLE field, and rule IDRUL1 in the
RULE field. Use either the default or a test CMEM rule library. For the purposes of
this guide, this library is called CMEM.TEST.RULE.
NOTE
If Control-O is installed, your site should not be running CMEM.
The CMEM rule definition is much simpler than the job scheduling definition.
Basically, it enables specification of the following types of parameters:
■ ON parameters specify the situation or event that should trigger the rule.
■ DO parameters specify the actions the rule should perform.
■ General parameters specify general information about the rule. In the screen, the
general information appears immediately under the ON statement.
The CMEM rule lacks Basic and Runtime scheduling criteria. CMEM tables are
usually ordered, or loaded to memory, when CMEM is started. They can also be
refreshed or loaded by an operator command, or manually, by using the FORCE
option in the CMEM Table List screen.
A CMEM rule in memory is triggered, that is, all its DO statements are performed, by
the occurrence of the events specified in the ON statements of the rule.
You can now define your CMEM rule. Of course, to define a rule, you need to know
its purpose. The rule you are about to define should accomplish the following:
Job IDEXT1 is a job that is NOT submitted under the Control-M monitor. However,
step S2 of job IDEXT1 performs certain processing that is required before certain
other jobs can be submitted by Control-M. Therefore, the purpose of the rule is to
inform Control-M when step S2 in job IDEXT1 ends OK.
11 In the ON statement, enter the value STEP. The ON STEP statement is displayed.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
ON STEP = JTYPE SMFID SYSTEM
PROCSTEP PGMSTEP STEPRC And/Or/Not
OWNER ID GROUP MODE PROD RUNTSEC
THRESHOLD
DESCRIPTION
===========================================================================
DO
===========================================================================
======= >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> END OF RULE DEFINITION PARAMETERS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< =====
NOTE
In this screen, the PGMSTEP field comes after the PROCSTEP field, which is the reverse
of the positioning of these fields in the Job Scheduling Definition screen.
B In the DESCRIPTION field, specify ON JOB IDEXT1 STEP S2:OK ADD COND.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
ON STEP = IDEXT1 JTYPE SMFID SYSTEM
PROCSTEP PGMSTEP S2 STEPRC OK And/Or/Not
OWNER ID GROUP MODE TEST RUNTSEC NONE
DESCRIPTION ON JOB IDEXT1 STEP S2:OK ADD COND
DESCRIPTION
===========================================================================
15 Specify IDS2-IDEXT1-OK in the condition field, ODAT in the date field, and + in the
action field.
===========================================================================
DO COND = IDS2-IDEXT1-OK ODAT +
DO
===========================================================================
In addition to displaying the rule name and description, the Rule List screen also
displays the rule type, which in this case is Z. The rule type is determined by the type
of ON statement defined. The letter Z is used to indicate that the rule is an ON STEP
rule. There are other rule type codes that will be identified later in this chapter.
17 Exit the Rule List screen. The Exit Option window is displayed.
18 Enter Y in the CREATE field. The CMEM entry panel is displayed again.
You can now load to memory the table that contains the rule you just defined.
19 Ensure the TABLE and RULE name fields are blank and press Enter. The Table List
screen is displayed.
The Control-M CMEM Order Messages screen displays a message indicating that
the table is about to be ordered by the CMEM monitor.:
21 Exit the Control-M CMEM Order Messages screen. The CMEM Table List screen is
displayed.
The condition should not appear because the rule that creates it has not yet been
triggered.
23 Submit the JCL of job IDEXT1. Once Step S2 has ended OK, check again for
condition IDS2-IDEXT1-OK in the IOA Conditions/Resources screen.
The condition does not appear, due to the rule being in TEST mode, as specified in
13 on page 218. However, if the rule had been defined in PROD mode, the
condition would appear, indicating that the CMEM rule detected the successful
completion of step S2 and added the specified condition to the IOA Conditions file.
Control-M jobs that have this condition as an IN condition can now be submitted,
assuming all other scheduling and runtime criteria are satisfied.
Examples
The following list indicates the Rule type code that appears in the Rule List screen,
depending on the type of ON statements specified in the rule:
■ R – Job arrival
■ X – Job end
■ D – Dataset
■ Z – Step
■ be an ON JOBARRIV rule that is triggered by the arrival of the job on the JES spool
The issue of matching the job scheduling definition to the arriving job is discussed
in more detail later.
Control-M then controls the entire life cycle of the job, except submission, according
to the instructions in the forced job scheduling definition. Because the job has already
been submitted, Control-M does not submit the job. However, if the job is held,
Control-M releases the job when the runtime scheduling criteria are met.
The following tables clarify the connections between the components by identifying
the values you will specify and the reasons for those values. This understanding
should be gained before you create the necessary components.
■ The job should be submitted with TYPRUN=HOLD to delay its execution and
permit Control-M to determine when to run the job.
■ The MSGCLASS sysout of the job should be one of the following to enable
Control-M to read the sysout for the job and perform postprocessing according
to the job scheduling definition:
— For JES3 users, it must be equal to the Control-M SYSOUT held class.
■ The ON JOBARRIV statement should have the job name value of IDEXT2 after
the = symbol. The rest of the fields can be blank.
■ For the General parameters, the OWNER field should contain your user ID, the
MODE field should contain the value TEST, and the DESCRIPTION field should
say CREATE ON SPOOL JOB.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
ON JOBARRIV = IDEXT2 JTYPE SMFID SYSTEM And/Or/Not
OWNER ID GROUP MODE TEST RUNTSEC
DESCRIPTION CREATE ON SPOOL JOB
DESCRIPTION
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
DO FORCEJOB = TABLE IDGS4 JOB IDEXT2 DATE ODAT
LIBRARY CTM.TEST.SCHEDULE
DO
===========================================================================
26 Exit the Rule Definition screen, and the Rule List screen. In the Exit Option
window, save the rule.
■ The MEMLIB field points to the JCL library of the arrived job, which in this
exercise is CTM.TEST.JCL.
You can now define the following parameters in this job scheduling definition:
The CMEM rule detects the arrival of job IDEXT2 on the JES spool, and forces the
job scheduling definition of job IDEXT2. Control-M then recognizes this as an On
Spool job and tracks and controls the job using the instructions in the job
scheduling definition.
34 Check the job log. The job log indicates the appropriate Control-M handling of the
job, depending on the results of the execution (assuming that the rule is in PROD
mode).
■ The job name specified in the ON JOBARRIV statement in this rule must match the
name of the job to be monitored. It can be a full job name, or it can be a mask if a
group of jobs is to be monitored.
■ The job scheduling definition must be forced by the first DO FORCEJOB statement
in the CMEM rule.
■ The MEMNAME value in the job scheduling definition must match the name of
the external job. A mask can be specified in the MEMNAME field if the same job
scheduling definition is used for more than one job.
■ Appropriate runtime scheduling criteria for the job must be defined in the job
scheduling definition. This enables Control-M to control when the job should be
run, that is, its execution.
■ When the job arrival event occurs, Control-M forces the requested table or job.
— If the MEMNAME value in the requested table or job does not match the name
of the arriving job, the table or job is forced and processed regularly by
Control-M, which presumes that a job is submitted when its runtime scheduling
criteria are met, and so on.
— If the MEMNAME value in the requested table or job matches the name of the
arriving job, the job becomes an On Spool job and Control-M
■ assigns the job ID of the job that triggered the event to the forced job
For details and exceptions see the discussion of On Spool job scheduling
definition considerations in the Control-M for z/OS User Guide.
■ Control-M starts processing the forced job when all runtime scheduling criteria
defined in the job scheduling definition are satisfied. If there are no runtime
scheduling criteria in the job scheduling definition, Control-M starts processing the
job immediately.
■ Control-M looks for the job in the spool and releases it, if required.
— If the external job is waiting for execution in HELD state, that is, if the job arrives
on spool with the TYPRUN parameter set to HOLD, Control-M releases it for
execution.
— Otherwise, Control-M verifies that the job is still in the spool, and is waiting for
execution, executing, or ended, before performing postprocessing.
■ Control-M waits for the job to finish execution, reads its SYSOUT, analyzes the
execution results, and performs all the postprocessing actions defined in the job
scheduling definition.
By default, Control-M can only handle On Spool jobs that originate on the same NJE
node on which Control-M is running.
A copy of the utility is pre-supplied with Control-M. You need only provide the
desired control statements, as discussed below:
36 In the pre-supplied copy of the utility, add the following control statements under
the EXEC statement:
This job must be submitted through Control-M to resolve the AutoEdit variables.
Take a closer look at the control statements you can use in this utility. All control
statements must have the following format:
where
E – Exclusive
S – Shared
■ It can be activated as a started task (STC), from TSO, or from within a user
program.
IOA Online Utility I1, which is described in the IOA Utilities chapter of the Control-M
for z/OS User Guide, can be used for adding, deleting or checking a prerequisite
condition in the IOA Conditions file.
Miscellaneous Facilities
The following facilities may prove of special interest to you. There are no exercises to
perform regarding these facilities, and you can find their descriptions in the
appropriate guide. They are listed below to ensure you know they are available.
Some of the following descriptions are taken from the introductory chapter of the
Control-M for z/OS User Guide.
If Control-M/Restart is installed, these jobs can be placed in the History Jobs file
during New Day processing. This is an optional feature that can be activated by the
INCONTROL administrator. Activation of this feature is described under parameter
HIST in the Control-M chapter of the INCONTROL for z/OS Administrator Guide.
Jobs in the History Jobs file can be restored, by request, to the Active Jobs file, for
subsequent restart.
Jobs remain in the History Jobs file until they are deleted according to criteria defined
in the job scheduling definition.
The contents of the History Jobs file can be viewed from the History Environment
screen, as described in the online facilities chapter of the Control-M for z/OS User
Guide.
The Journal file is initialized each day during New Day processing. From that point
on, for the rest of the working day, the Control-M monitor records in the Journal file
all job processing activities that impact the Control-M Active Jobs file, and all
prerequisite condition additions to and deletions from the IOA Conditions file and
the Control-M Resources file.
If the Control-M Active Jobs file, and optionally, the IOA Conditions file and the
Control-M Resources file, need to be restored, for example, following a system crash,
utility CTMRSTR can be run to restore the files. The utility uses data from the Journal
file to restore the files to the status they had at any specific time after the last run of
the New Day procedure.
The Control-M Journal file is initialized each day during New Day processing.
Therefore, the time at which the New Day procedure initialized the Journal file is the
earliest time to which the Control-M Active Jobs file, the Control-M Resources file, or
the IOA Conditions file can be restored.
■ determining if the execution time of a job falls outside a statistically normal range
of time, which would indicate an execution delay or problem
■ determining when a shout message should be issued based on the elapsed time of
a job
■ simulating job executions and forecast the impact of changes to the system.
For more information, see the discussion on Automatic Job Flow Adjustment in the
introductory chapter of the Control-M for z/OS User Guide.
The Simulation and Forecasting facility enables you to forecast anticipated job load
for a specified time in the future, and to forecast the effects that possible changes to
the system might have.
The Simulation and Forecasting facility can improve the efficiency of your site. It can
help with resource and configuration decisions, and it can help with the planning of
workload scheduling to achieve maximum utilization of resources.
The Simulation and Forecasting facility is described in the chapter on the Simulation
and Forecasting facility in the Control-M for z/OS User Guide.
The facility utilizes the Simulation and Forecasting procedure that can be activated by
online utility CTMCSIM, which is run by Option M3 in the IOA Utility menu. This
utility, which can also activate the Tape Pull List procedure, is described in the IOA
Utilities chapter of the Control-M for z/OS User Guide.
This utility can be requested by entering option R2 in the IOA Utility menu. The
utility is described in detail in the CONTROLR step chapter of the Control-M/Restart
User Guide.
Reporting Facility
Control-M supports a comprehensive reporting facility, which can produce the
following types of reports:
Sample reports are provided in the IOA SAMPLE library. The Reporting facility is
described in the Keystroke Language (KSL) chapter of the Control-M for z/OS User
Guide. Special purpose reports are described in the INCONTROL for z/OS Utilities
Guide.
This completes the steps in this chapter of the Control-M for z/OS Getting Started
Guide.
Review
In this chapter you
■ created a calendar in the IOA Calendar facility and used it to schedule a job
■ created a CMEM table and rule, and loaded the rule to memory
— Reporting Facility
Recommended Reading
It is recommended that you read the following:
A
A Sample JCLs
Shown below are sample JCLs used for the exercises in this book, according to
chapter and job. The samples indicate how the JCL appears at the time of preparation.
They do not indicate changes made during the course of the exercises. It may be
necessary to customize some of these JCLs, particularly when names, such as a site-
defined library name, must be specified.
Chapter 1
JOB1
JOB2
Chapter 2
JOB3
JOB4
Chapter 3
JOB5
Chapter 4
JOB1
JOB2
JOB3
JOB4
JOB5
Chapter 5
JOB6
JOB7
JOB8
JOB9
Chapter 6
JOB3
JOB5
Chapter 7
No special preparations required.
Chapter 8
JOB10
EXT1
Index
Symbols
%% SET control statement 141 UP 73
%%$CALCDTE AutoEdit function 141, 142 Conditions 70
%%$CALCDTE function 141, 142 adding 82
%%$JULIAN AutoEdit function 142 Control statements
%%$JULIAN function 142 %% SET 141
%%A AutoEdit variable 141 AutoEdit 154
CONTROL-M
Active Jobs file 233
B Defining
Calendars 209
Basis scheduling parameters 60 Date Control Record for a User Daily job 199
BMC Software, contacting 2 Global variables 158
JCL of a User Daily job 198
Job scheduling definition of a User Daily job 201
C JOB4 74
On Spool jobs 223
Calendars, defining 209 Restart in the job scheduling definition 93
CMEM rule, creating 224 Displaying
Commands Execution information from job runs 182
ADD 82 Job dependencies 180
DOWN 73 Jobs belonging to a specific SMART Table 189
NOTE 176 List of Available Filters 173
Index 249
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
I N
IOA Calendar Definition facility 214 New Day processing 197
IOA Conditions/Resources screen 81 NOTE command 176
IOACND batch utility 229 Note, adding to a job 176
J O
JCL ODATE 137
Editing from the Active Environment 99 On Spool jobs 228
Setup operation flow 163 ON Statements 221
Job List Screen, formats 50 ON TABLE-END parameter 112
Job Order Execution History screen 182 Online facility
Job Ordering methods 205 Exiting 50
Job scheduling definition facility, returning to 46 Primary options 26
P T
Parameters Table List screen
Basis scheduling 60 Selecting a table from 48
General 59 technical support 3
ON TABLE-END 112 Toggling Between Display of Commands and Options 36
Post-processing 112
Runtime scheduling
section 64
Post-processing
U
Parameters 112 User Daily jobs 198, 201
Parameters section 67 Utilities
product support 3 CTMAESIM 146
CTMJOB 194
CTMJOBRQ 203
R CTMRSTR 233
CTRCCLN (R2) 235
Reporting facility, CONTROL_M 235 IOACND 229
Resource usage, forecasting 234 Utility CTMAESIM 146
Resource, adding 82
Responding to external events through CMEM 215
Runtime Scheduling Parameters 111 V
Variables
S %%A 141
Date 138
Saving the Table 126 Global
Schedule RBCs and Other Basic Scheduling Parameters Access by another job 160
109 Defining 158
Screens Syntax 159
Active Environment 36 Update by another job 162
Changing display types 175 Local and global 156
Checking the job log 41 Non-Date system 139
Holding and deleting job orders 44 Supplying values through an external member 151
IOA Conditions/Resources 81 Supplying values through the job scheduling
Filtering 81 definition 144
Job List, formats 50
Job Order Execution History 182
Sysout Viewing 184
Table List, selecting a table from 48
W
Why 78, 83 Why screen 78, 83
Zoom 84 Adding a missing condition in 80
SMART Table Working date 137
Entity 108
Scheduling
Advantages 130
Creating 107
Z
Points to remember 126 Zoom screen 84
SMART Table Entity
Logic of the SMART Table Entity scheduling
definition 114
Statements, ON 221
Statistics, accumulating 233
support, customer 3
Sysout Viewing screen 184
System date 137
Index 251
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z