Purge

Purge is the last processing function for a job in the JES3 system. It releases all JES3 DASD space assigned to the job, making it available for allocation to subsequent jobs. A message is issued to the operator indicating that the job has been purged from the system.

At the conclusion of purge, the JES3 installation accounting routine writes out a type 26 SMF record. This record contains times and dates of the processing on the processor writing the record. Since the clocks on the various processors are not synchronized, elapsed times should all be taken from the same types of records (for example, from type 26 records). Otherwise, timing differences in the records may result.

See z/OS MVS System Management Facilities (SMF) for a complete description of record type 26.