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6.7 Identify All Jobs Flushed With a JCL Error


PROBLEM:

    JCL errors remain one of the major problems for both
    operational and programmer personnel.  A report tracking
    which jobs have flushed with JCL errors for the morning
    hours of 8:00 a.m. until noon is required.

DATABASE FILES TO BE ACCESSED:

    &PBATX..BATJOB01
        Yesterday's Batch User Job Activity File


SUGGESTED SAS FACILITIES TO BE USED FOR REPORTING:

    PROC PRINT may be used to list the required data.


SAS CODE EXAMPLE:

************************************************************;
* IDENTIFICATION OF JCL ERRORS DURING 8-12 MORNING HOURS   *;
************************************************************;
 DATA;
 SET &PBATX..BATJOB01;
 IF JOBJCLER=1;
 IF HOUR GE 8 AND HOUR LE 11;
 PROC PRINT; VAR JOB RDRTS;
 TITLE "DAILY JCL ERRORS";


GENERATED OUTPUT REPORT:

    Figure 6-4 illustrates the output reports produced by the
    SAS code illustrated above.

                                                           DAILY JCL ERRORS                         16:18 THURSDAY, APRIL 20, yyyy                                                    OBS    JOB                RDRTS                                                    1    COM001X     17APR09:11:58:50.62                                                  2    XEP735X     17APR09:09:27:33.86                                                  3    XEP735Z     17APR09:10:30:13.63                                                  4    XIM013F     17APR09:10:40:41.20                                                  5    XIM013G     17APR09:10:41:01.06                                                  6    XIM013H     17APR09:10:44:12.14                                                  7    XIM013J     17APR09:11:05:41.13                                                  8    XIM013K     17APR09:11:09:05.93                                                  9    CPM012AC    17APR09:08:10:33.26                                                 10    CPM373J     17APR09:11:06:45.10                                                 11    CPM373K     17APR09:11:11:19.76                                                 12    CPM512      17APR09:10:29:28.07                                                 13    CPM538H     17APR09:10:36:08.84                                                 14    CPM538      17APR09:08:58:59.30                                                 15    CPM538      17APR09:10:26:46.09                                                 16    CPM538      17APR09:10:27:17.90                                                 17    CPM544TX    17APR09:08:57:06.24                                                 18    CPM544TX    17APR09:09:16:19.58                                                 19    CPM544TX    17APR09:08:54:50.51                                                 20    CPM563E     17APR09:08:58:25.05                                                 21    CPM563Z     17APR09:07:28:59.84                                                 22    RGG80405    17APR09:11:08:00.87                                                 23    PRA301UP    17APR09:10:30:29.18                                                 24    PRA301UP    17APR09:10:20:35.65                                                 25    EXY777B     17APR09:11:45:18.86                                                 26    EXY777C     17APR09:11:47:54.62                                                 27    EXY777X     17APR09:11:24:40.69                                                 28    AAA117N     17APR09:10:36:33.60                                                 29    AAA117S     17APR09:11:12:39.97                                                 30    CPM017RP    15APR09:09:05:41.78                                                 31    AXB707P9    17APR09:10:49:09.47                                                 32    AXB707P9    17APR09:10:52:22.34                                                 33    AXG008A     17APR09:09:39:29.01    

Figure 6-4.  List of Daily JCL Errors