Thanks, Brad. Right after getting your response, BMC contacted me and confirmed that this is in fact what Control-M is doing. Buried deep inside the control-m libraries is the one that actually stores customer JCL. The job in question had MSGCLASS=X in the BMC library. Before submitting the job, control-m changed the job to MSGCLASS=H. That was why the JOBCARD had MSGCLASS=H. Control-m then changed the output back to class X at the end of the job.
The part I still don't quite understand is why the Output display in SDSF shows the output in class X but the STatus displays the intermediate class H. Obviously they're getting the information from different sources. Thanks again, everybody, for your help. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Carson Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JES confusion on a specific job Rex, What Control-M is doing here is altering the sysout class for the joblog, jcl image, and allocation messages to a held class that can be picked up by the control-m monitor. That is how the monitor is checking for JCL errors, space errors, and other issues. In your schedule definitions you will need to add some parameters for change the sysout class back to an output class. This is how I had to handle it at a past site. Where I am now, we are using TWS (OPC for those of you who remember it) and it inserts an OUTPUT statment to create a copy of the job log, ... for its use. Hope this helps you. Brad S. Carson Manager z/Series Technical Support Enterprise Systems Laboratory Corporation of America (336) 436-8294 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/15/2007 11:26 AM >>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:03:34 -0600, Pommier, Rex R. wrote: >I can't categorically say that it is something Control-M is doing to me, >but it sure is suspicious that we started having this problem about the >same time we implemented the scheduler. Rex, I do believe that it is Control-M that is doing that (on purpose or at least not entirely by accident). If you contact your vendor software representative (Erik maybe? Say "Hi" for me if it is, please.) you should be able to get an explanation from him/her that makes sense. (I've worked at a Control-M site before and I saw that behavior... I believe that's how they figure out the job's success/failure, etc.) You should also be able to get the issue straightened out then, too. Everything else is a waste of your time on this issue. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
