RE: jobs held in a subsystem when subsystem is ended

[smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I have seen similar behavior to what Jim described. We have a program that 
monitors the number of records in a file. If the number of records exceeds 
a threshold, the program sends a message. Once we receive the message, we 
often put the program on hold so it doesn't keep alerting us to a known 
issue. If we stop the susbsytem (ENDSBS SBS(ABC) DELAY(5)) , the program 
which is on hold, will send another alert as the subsystem shuts down. 
I've never investigated this because it was a non-issue for us.

Steve
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Steven Morrison
Fidelity Express 





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RE: jobs held in a subsystem when subsystem is ended






Jim (Sherlock),

                 Ending of a SBS would NEVER release the job.  Find the 
job log, or
do a DSPLOG and I bet you will see the message Job 
NEVEREND/SHERLOCK/123456
has been release by DAISYDUCK.

                 Good hunting.

                 Pete

Pete Massiello
iTech Solutions
http://www.itechsol.com



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Subject: jobs held in a subsystem when subsystem is ended 

Thanks everyone

I'll try to be more clear

We have a job running all day in qbatch that checks our data every 1 
minute
to see if it should go to an ftp site to retrieve data from one of our
customers in response to data we sent them.

Someone held it during the day using option 3 on the wrkactjob screen. (If
you did a wrkactjob of qbatch it was at a hld status)

it stayed at the hld status till 10:30 pm

during our automated night process, subsystem qbatch is ended controlled 
at
10:30 PM.

working with the display log and timestamps on the ftplog, I saw that just
seconds after the subsystem was ended controlled, the held program seemed
to "wake up" and processed data from the ftp site.

I have attempted to use the Sherlock Holmes technique to eliminate every
other possibility, and this seems to be the only one left.

Any ideas?

Jim Horn

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Does anyone know?

Is there a chance that -
- if a job is held in a subsystem (it had been started by a jobscde)
- if the subsystem is ended controlled
then - the job becomes active again while the subsystem ends?

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