That would be overkill for our purposes, I think. We'll see; we haven't used it
in anger yet. What I think I want (and am currently generating) is something
like:
========================================================================
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--PHS.PHSG1.JOB00950.D0000002.JESMSGLG----------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 J E S 2 J O B L O G -- S Y S T E M S 0 W 1
0
13.58.25 JOB00950 ---- FRIDAY, 09 JAN 2026 ----
13.58.25 JOB00950 IRR010I USERID PHS IS ASSIGNED TO THIS JOB.
13.58.25 JOB00950 IEFC452I PHSG1 - JOB NOT RUN - JCL ERROR 716
0------ JES2 JOB STATISTICS ------
0 19 CARDS READ
0 35 SYSOUT PRINT RECORDS
0 0 SYSOUT PUNCH RECORDS
0 2 SYSOUT SPOOL KBYTES
0 0.00 MINUTES EXECUTION TIME
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--PHS.PHSG1.JOB00950.D0000003.JESJCL------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 //PHSG1 JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1),MSGCLASS=H
(etc.)
The line of equals signs will separate *jobs* in the file: my tool lets you
tell it whether to append or not. Again, not clear we need that. Yet.
This will at least be better than the nothing we have now; we'll see if it's
good enough. We have a lot of failures due to transient issues (typically
networking between our hosted z/OS system and our internal servers), and those
should be clearer, at a minimum.
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2026 11:40 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SDSF / ISFEXEC / ISFACT question
On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:36:29 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote:
> ...
>This EXEC will let us save the job output before deleting it. FFDC, what a
>concept!
>
How do you deal with various attributes among the numerous spool data sets
which constitute a job?
I could imagine writing each spool data set to a separate PS data set and
building an index file to identify them..
--
gil
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