Overview of your input to retry processing

Your input to retry processing is through subentries in the OPTIONS entry, an optional retry exit routine, and the RETRY command operand.

OPTIONS entry. The RETRYDDN and EXRTYDD subentries in the OPTIONS entry indicate which libraries are eligible for retry processing.
The RETRYDDN subentry specifies which libraries should be included in retry processing. Without this list of libraries, SMP/E does not attempt retry processing.

The EXRTYDD subentry specifies which libraries should be excluded from retry processing. This makes it easier for you to include all but a few specific libraries in retry processing.
Exit routine. The retry exit routine enables you to control retry processing when an x37 abend occurs, instead of having SMP/E compress the out-of-space data set and reinvoke the failing utility.
If SMP/E determines that a retry can be attempted, it cancels the abend dump and calls the retry exit routine. The routine can then either cancel retry processing or perform some other method of recovery.
RETRY operand. The RETRY operand tells SMP/E whether to attempt retry processing for the specific SMP/E command that is being processed. RETRY can be specified on the ACCEPT, APPLY, LINK LMODS, LINK MODULE, and RESTORE commands.
You do not need to specify this operand in order to request retry processing, because the default is RETRY(YES). However, you can explicitly specify RETRY(YES) if you want to.

To prevent retry processing for a specific command, specify RETRY(NO) instead of using RETRY(YES).