Mainframe Application Support

    When any job abends, the first thing we need to do is identify the reason for the failure of the job.Once the reason is found then you need to see whether any data correction/data deletion to be done.Some times you may have to do program change to correct the failure. Once after correcting the problematic data or issue one has to decide from where the job need to restart. Options for restarting jobs. Restart from the same abended step Restart form any earlier step Restart form top Bypass the abended step and continue from next step Mark the job as completed. 1.If there is no dependency with earlier steps then the abended job can be restarted from the same step. 2.If any temporary data sets are used in the abended step,then we will have to find from where they are getting created in the job.If that file is created two steps earlier then you may have to restart the job from that step where the temporary data set is getting created. We shou...