Difference Between Cancel And Force Complete in Ca7

Difference Between Cancel And Force Complete in Ca7:

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The ‘CANCEL’ top line command says to cancel a job out of  CA-7’s queues. When a cancel is issued, job triggered will not be performed and requirements will not be satisfied for other jobs. (Cancel a job when it is called in by mistake or you do not want to finish running a job stream when a job abends).

‘FORCE COMPLETE’  is an option from the RESTART screen. ‘FORCE COMPLETE’ says to get rid of a job in abend status and treat it as a normal EOJ. Forcing complete a job will cause CA-7 to perform any triggers defined in the data base and will satisfy requirements for other jobs. (When using the ‘FORCE COMPLETE’ option from the restart screen, you are required to specify a Reason-For-Rerun).Forcing complete a job under CA-7 will also set the job back to production in CA-11’s data base. This keeps both data bases in sync.   

CANCEL COMMAND

Job are canceled from any queue by using the top line ‘CANCEL’COMMAND. The format of the command is

CANCEL, JOB=nnn

Where: ‘nnn’ is the CA-7 job number assigned to the job.

 Cancelling a job from either the Ready or Active queues will cancel the job from JES. CA-7 never touches jobs once they have been submitted to JES.

If a job is set for rerun under CA-11, the about command cannot be used. To cancel a job that is set for rerun, your command format is:

CANCEL, FORCE=YES, JOB=nnn

The ‘FORCE=YES’ sub-parameter will set the job back to production in CA-11’s data base. This keeps both data bases in sync.