TWS recovery options

The Conversion tool automatically adjusts or report TWS job RECOVERY conditional statements as found in the jobs.txt file.

The possible options for RECOVERY are:

Recovery Sub-parameter

Function

Control-M equivalent

STOP

If the job fails, do not continue processing

Handled by Conversion tool

CONTINUE

If the job fails, continue with the next job in the sequence

Handled by Conversion tool

RERUN

If the job fails, rerun it

Handled by Conversion tool

AFTER [WORKSTATION] jobname

If the job fails, submit a recovery job

ON NOTOK DO FORCEJOB

ABENDPROMPT “text”

If the job fails, issue a message to the operator

ON NOTOK DO SHOUT

NOTE: RECOVERY AFTER statements issue a conversion message WRN0016 - Unable to create an assisting job to enable the RECOVERY AFTER option. Scan the jobs.txt file for occurrences of ‘RECOVERY AFTER’, and apply the required job-name as the DO FORCEJOB parameters for Control-M.

The ABENDPROMPT statement can also issue messages in different ways.

“text”= a maximum of 64 characters to be displayed in the event of job failure

“:text”= the prompt is displayed but requires no intervention

“!text”= the prompt is not displayed but requires a reply to continue the schedule

In each scenario, it is advised to issue ON NOTOK, DO SHOUT messages that advise the operator on the appropriate course of action.

Parent Topic

TWS recommended practices