Mike Schwab wrote:
It would be nice if an JES INIT could be set to abend a job at the end
of a step to allow faster shutdown, cleaner restart. I.E. a status of
draining-step would continue to run, but when the step ends .the job
is cancelled. You would not want to apply this to some inits, because
a STC or online region might have a clean-up step after the main step
closes.
That sounds pretty close to this function we announced for z/OS R13:
In z/OS V1.13, several batch enhancements are provided for JES2
environments that are intended to help simplify the development of batch
applications.
<snip>
- Support is provided to allow jobs for which journaling is used to be
stopped after a currently running step has finished and held for restart
in the following step. This is intended to allow less-disruptive system
shutdowns.
....
--
John Eells
z/OS Technical Marketing
IBM Poughkeepsie
[email protected]
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
