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anandrk

Everybody,

Need some hints from you.. I know TSO STATUS (jobname) works if the job output is available in spool..

However in my case the job run information is available in $AVERS. Is there a command which can find if the job has run if the output is stored in $AVERS.

Let me give you the background.. 4 jobs run on our mainframe after a modem transmission completes.. These transmissions come from a different company. Some people here have to manually check $AVERS after some intervals to check if these 4 jobs have run.. I was trying to automate this via REXX.

Please reply back if someone has got any ideas to achieve this.

I will be glad if you can point any online help available for $AVERS.

Thanks,
Anand

kolusu · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:25 am Post subject:

Anand,
$AVRS comes with an interactive panel where you can print, browse ,delete the sysout of jobs. The screen will look like it is shown on the 2nd page of this link

http://www.seasoft.com/$AVRS_Brochure.pdf

Btw their Help screens (PF1) are quite descriptive.

Alternatively you can run a batch job shown below to capture the output of your jobs

anandrk · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:12 pm Post subject: $AVERS output

Thanks Kolusu,

The links you gave were really helpful..

Prasam · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:32 am Post subject:

Hi Kolusu,

I just came across this thru searching and i found it would be useful to me.

On doubt in your code.Could you please explain $AVRLOCK and SYSUT1 steps
datasets.Are the datasets SAVRS.LOCK,SAVRS.DATABASE.ARCHIVE installation defined datasets?

I couldn't find these datasets on my system.

Could you please provide with any info about the purpose of these datasets?

Thanks,
Prasanth.
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kolusu · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:52 am Post subject:

Prasam,

The $AVRLOCK DD is allocated to lock the file which you are trying to restore. The sysut1 dataset is where your shop archives the JOb log of every job run on the system. I just gave generic name for the dataset. The name varies from shop to shop. So you need to talk to your systems programmer and find out the naming convention of your shop for savrs.

Hope this helps...

Cheers

Kolusu
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Prasam · Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 2:41 am Post subject:

Hi kolusu,

Thanks for your clarification.One more information which would be helpful is how can give the return code of a job in sysin for $avrselr.What will be the parameter for return code?

Thanks a lot,
Prasanth.
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kolusu · Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:14 am Post subject:

Prasam,

Specify a 1 to 8 character entry or mask to limit selection of work to specific completion or return codes. The field entered is matched against the $AVRS CCODE and/or the RETURN CODE field for each potential job.

For example, to select work with a RETURN CODE of 4, one may enter any of the following: 4, 04, 0004, RC=0004, or HC=0004. Note: only the return code is evaluated when numerics, HC=, or RC= values are entered. The completion code (CCODE) is ignored.

The Return Code specification is valid for all selection types except SYSLOG (SL), Status Reports (ST), Fiche History (FH), and Fiche Index (FI).
Any position may have its significance replaced by using the character "*". When no additional significant characters are needed to compose a mask, a "-" may be used in lieu of filling the remaining positions with asterisks. Following are some
examples of masks: