Regarding Restart card in JCL

[jsaravanaece]

Hi


If you insert restart card inbetween any keyword paramater then what will happen

i dont have access to run any job on my Lpar.


Thanks,
Saravanan J

[Anuj Dhawan]

I, for one, did not understand your question quite well - rephrase it, please.

On the other hand - are you talking about RESTART of a Job? Then you use RESTART in your Job-card; there is no "Restart card in JCL" I'm aware of.

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

Saravanan,

a simple look in the JCL Reference Manual and looking for the JOB 20.23 RESTART Parameter will provide the info which you need.

[jsaravanaece]

Saravanan,

a simple look in the JCL Reference Manual and looking for the JOB 20.23 RESTART Parameter will provide the info which you need.

Thanks for kind reply,

For example:
see the job card
//ABCDXYZA JOB CLASS=A,RESTART=PROCSTEP.STEPNAME,NOTIFY=ABCDXYZ

here I have inserted the restart card inbetween (not at end of job card).

if you run this program, what will happen.

please suggesst me

thanks in advance

[DikDude]

here I have inserted the restart card inbetween (not at end of job card).

Where the RESTART is placed in the JOB statement will not change how the job executes.

if you run this program, what will happen.

Which program? I suspect you mean what will happen if this job is submitted

Assuming the RESTART parameter is coded correctly, the job will begin execution at that point. If the job tests return codes, this must also be considered. Suggest you read all about RESTART in the JCL manual.

[Anuj Dhawan]

It does not matter where you code the RESTART in Job-card, as DikDude indicates. RESTART is not a "positional keyword" for JCL. In Job-card, you can code it wherever you wish to, of-course without distrubing the other positional-parameters.

Most of the Production Support personnel code it at the 'end of Job card', just to make it easy for an on-looker. In a typical Production environment, you don't RESTART every job, it's an additional parameter you provide when one wants to restart a job after an abended state - and "addition" comes in the end, not in between -- this is just a behavior, usually followed, it's not a necessity of JCL.

[jsaravanaece]

Thank you both of you.

now I got it

[Anuj Dhawan]

You're welcome,

Take care.

[dmvishnu]

Hi Saravanan,

Retsart is a Key word parameter u can use in between any key word parameter in JOB card.

Thanks,
Vishhnu.

[NicC]

u can use in between any key word parameter in JOB card.

Really? Have ypu tried puttiing it between jobname and JOB or JOB and accounting information?

[gupta.deepti95]

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