Preventing a timeout abend

The stored procedures for update, takeover, and restore operations on a text search index might run a long time for tables that have many rows.

About this task

If the stored procedure calls are submitted as a job in the TSO environment, an ABEND CODE=522 can occur. The job stops, because the time limit for the job has been exceeded.

Procedure

To prevent a timeout abend:

In the job, add the parameter TIME=NOLIMIT after the JOB and EXEC statements.