4. EXCEPTIONS › 4.3 Detailed Exception Descriptions › 03009: Excessive Job Restarts

03009: Excessive Job Restarts

FILE:             Batch User Job Activity
SAS FILE NAME:    DETAIL.BATJOB01
SOURCE LOCATION:  prefix.MICS.USER.SOURCE(DYSMFEXC)

SEVERITY:  Warning              (SEVERITY='W')
MANAGEMENT AREA:  Performance   (MGMTAREA='PERFORMANCE')

PURPOSE:  Identifies jobs that were excessively restarted.
Excessive restarts may be due to data set contentions or
repeated abends.

RATIONALE:   Job restarts utilize resources of the Job Entry
Subsystem and tie up job initiation resources.

DEFINITION:  This exception is detected when a batch job has
restarted more times than the installation-defined value.

EXCEPTION STATEMENTS:  The SAS statements identifying the
exception situation and describing the condition are stored
in the source member named in SOURCE LOCATION and are
described below.

*
**  03009
**  EXCESSIVE JOB RESTARTS
*;
IF JOBRSTRT > restarts THEN DO;
    EXCCODE='03009'; SEVERITY='W'; MGMTAREA='PERFORMANCE';
    EXCDESC1=
    'EXCESSIVE JOB RESTARTS';
    EXCDESC2='NUMBER OF JOB RESTARTS ='
             || PUT(JOBRSTRT,5.);
    LINK HIT;
END;

THRESHOLD MODIFICATION:  Modify the value used for restarts
as follows:

    restarts - The target number of restarts.  A threshold of
       1 appears as:

          JOBRSTRT > 1