Resubmitting jobs for restart

When you resubmit a job for restart, be careful with any DD statements that might affect the execution of the restarted job step. The restart routine uses information from DD statements in the resubmitted job to reset files for use after restart.

About this task

If you want a data set to be deleted at the end of a job step, give it a conditional disposition of PASS or KEEP (rather than DELETE). This disposition allows the data set to be available if an interruption forces a restart. If you want to restart a job at the beginning of a step, you must first discard any data set created (defined as NEW in a DD statement) in the previous run, or change the DD statement to mark the data set as OLD.

The system automatically repositions input data sets that are on tape or disk.