Yes, a JES2 cold start with newly defined/allocated spool and checkpoint 
datasets will be needed. Have you looked into setting default estimates in 
JES2PARM, bytes, lines, pages, with OPT=1 to cancel jobs that exceed your 
limits?

Mark Jacobs 


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On Thursday, December 8th, 2022 at 2:16 PM, Michael Babcock 
<[email protected]> wrote:


> We have a 3 system plex, with two of those systems, DEV and PROD, in a
> JES2 MAS. We had an incident recently where a development job got into
> a loop and used up all spool. This in turn, caused our PROD system to
> come to, basically, a screeching halt.
> 
> Management wants to investigate removing PROD from the MAS.
> 
> Beyond the obvious cons below, what else am I missing? Will a cold
> start be required?
> 
> CONS:
> 1. No longer monitor production jobs from DEV
> 2. User's will need to logon to production to check on production jobs
> 3. Significant changes to desk procedures
> 4. May require changes to production jobs and/or CA7 (convert from
> SYSAFF to ROUTE XEQ)
> 
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