mmediate Detection and Notification of Problems

Immediate Detection and Notification of Problems: Shout Facility


ibm production tool CONTROL-M matirial. CONTROL-M
When a problem or an unexpected situation or delay occurs, CONTROL-M
can notify the appropriate personnel. These situations and problems are
detected by analysis of a job’s sysout.

Notification is issued by the Shout facility, which can send messages to a
variety of destinations including the operator console, a TSO user, and the
IOA Log file.

CONTROL-M can also be instructed to issue a SHOUT message in the event
an exception occurs at time of job submission and/or during job execution,
such as when a job completes before, or later than, its anticipated completion
time.

History Jobs File

During New Day processing, jobs that have ended OK or whose retention
period has expired according to job scheduling definition parameters are
deleted from the Active Jobs file.

If CONTROL-R is installed, these jobs can be placed in the History Jobs file
during New Day processing. This is an optional feature that can be activated
by the INCONTROL administrator. Activation of this feature is described
under parameter HIST in the INCONTROL for OS/390 Administration Guide.
Jobs in the History Jobs file can by request be restored to the Active Jobs file,
for subsequent restart.

Jobs remain in the History Jobs file until they are deleted according to
criteria defined in the job scheduling definition