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Use ARF

Use the Automated Recovery Facility (ARF) to monitor exception conditions for production jobs and to schedule recovery actions to execute at or near the point of failure.

ARF is flexible in what can be considered an exception. When using a JC (job completion) type ARFSET, ARF processing takes place once a job is requeued back to the request queue upon completion. We do not recommend using a good end of job as an exception and having ARF respond to the exception. This setting causes the job to go immediately through normal completion processing. This processing sometimes causes the ARF responses not to execute.

Business Value:

Using ARF lets you react quickly and without manual intervention for job recovery.