Submitting second job in jcl after coding // job.

Products

• ESP Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Have a job where we didn't want to run some steps for awhile, so we put a //  in it.

ESP is reading past the // and submitting more than it should.

In this job, there is another //JOB card as it is data for the program to manipulate.

 

Environment

Release : 12.0

Component : CA ESP WORKLOAD AUTOMATION

Cause

ESP will submit jobs when it detects multiple job cards in JCL

Resolution

If you do not want the second job to run then comment out the JOB card for the second job.