Production jobs with OUTPUT commands

Production jobs honor OUTPUT commands, such as OUTPUT SAVE, OUTPUT ACTIVATE, and OUTPUT NEW. OUTPUT SAVE commands executed during the course of a production job will write the contents of the specified output documents to the specified locations. This is in addition to the output file created by the production job. When using OUTPUT NEW to create a new output document, it is recommended that you explicitly save it with the OUTPUT SAVE command.

A production job output file consists of the contents of the active output document as of the end of the job. For jobs containing OUTPUT commands, the output file may not contain all output created in the session. For example, suppose the production job consists of a number of procedures followed by an OUTPUT NEW command, followed by more procedures but no more OUTPUT commands. The OUTPUT NEW command defines a new active output document. At the end of the production job, it will contain output from only the procedures executed after the OUTPUT NEW command.