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Does JCL parameter RESTART= work in ES

  • October 30, 2020
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  • Anonymous

We use the RESTART= parameter in JCL to do restarts, does this work in Enterprise Server?  I see that ES has command line options to control RESTART, but is the JCL parameter supported?


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    • Dominique SacreRocketeer
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    • October 30, 2020

    We use the RESTART= parameter in JCL to do restarts, does this work in Enterprise Server?  I see that ES has command line options to control RESTART, but is the JCL parameter supported?


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    Yes Enterprise Server can be configured to support restart processing. See these links for more detail

    https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/enterprise-developer/ed60/ED-Eclipse/BKCBCBJCRGS012.html

    https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/enterprise-developer/ed60/ED-Eclipse/BKCBCBJCRGS011.html

    Or search the documentation for restarting jobs


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    • Anonymous
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    • October 30, 2020
    Yes Enterprise Server can be configured to support restart processing. See these links for more detail

    https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/enterprise-developer/ed60/ED-Eclipse/BKCBCBJCRGS012.html

    https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/enterprise-developer/ed60/ED-Eclipse/BKCBCBJCRGS011.html

    Or search the documentation for restarting jobs


    I am familiar with the command line parameters to do restarts in ES, but as I stated, we use the JCL parameter RESTART= in the JCL to do restarts today.  I take it from your response that this Parameter is NOT supported in Enterprise Server and you must use the command line and associated environment variables to do a job restart.

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    • Dominique SacreRocketeer
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    • October 30, 2020

    I am familiar with the command line parameters to do restarts in ES, but as I stated, we use the JCL parameter RESTART= in the JCL to do restarts today.  I take it from your response that this Parameter is NOT supported in Enterprise Server and you must use the command line and associated environment variables to do a job restart.

    Using RESTART= in your JCL is supported. You do need to set the environment variables ES_JES_RESTART in the region at a minimum as Enterprise Server needs to keep track of job status to know the staus of datasets, etc. Depending on the behavior you expect for datasets in a restart you will likely want to also set MF_UCC11 though this is independent from restarts.



    You don't say how you are submitting the JCL, Web interface, MFBSI, CASSUB.


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    • Anonymous
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    • October 30, 2020
    Using RESTART= in your JCL is supported. You do need to set the environment variables ES_JES_RESTART in the region at a minimum as Enterprise Server needs to keep track of job status to know the staus of datasets, etc. Depending on the behavior you expect for datasets in a restart you will likely want to also set MF_UCC11 though this is independent from restarts.



    You don't say how you are submitting the JCL, Web interface, MFBSI, CASSUB.


    We are using the MFBSI interface to submit the job, although there may be cases where we use CASSUB directly.

    Thanks for the information on RESTART= , documentation doesn't mention use of RESTART= , so wasn't sure.


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