Jesse/Brian,

Same here in most shops someone had all written a WTO Pgm.

Scott

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 4:02 PM Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com>
wrote:

> MVS has provided such a mechanism forever using
>
> 1. a program that issues a WTO
>
> 2. conditional execution on the WTO step with COND=EVEN or ONLY (depending
> on the logic required)
>
> Most shops already have a more or less sophisticated (security wise)
> program to issue a WTO. Conditional JCL is free for the coding. Every shop
> I've worked in uses the mechanism to manage production, including my
> current one. There is as Brian says no way to handle a JCL error without an
> external 'product'.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Brian Westerman
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> Subject: (External):Re: WTO message at the end of JCL
>
> Yes, you can use an MPF exit to catch the JCL error.  The messages are
> merely different messages, so you would have your MPF exit process
> whichever message you want to use as your trigger.
>
> Sorry for the marketing:
>
> SyzMPF/z has a feature that will capture the condition codes (job failure
> or not) whenever any job ends and send an email (or text message) with all
> of that information (the codes from the steps that worked, the JCL error
> and any part(s) of the job output you might want) dynamically without any
> JCL changes to any job or any SMF exits being necessary.
>
> End of marketing.
>
> The point is,if there is a message from a job or because of a job, you can
> process it with am MPF exit.  Sometimes it's not easy, but obviously (since
> I did it), it's possible.
>
> Brian
>
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