Dispatch records events in the Common Services ENF Database

Products

• Dispatch Output Mgmt
• Common Services

Issue/Introduction

 The Dispatch Installation Guide states the following:

In order for Dispatch to provide complete and accurate STATUS data about information such as: Job print times, Bundle print information, and Abend information, the ENFDB must be available to record (store) the information that occurs while Dispatch is down for maintenance or other reasons. If the ENFDB is not available the Dispatch STATUS information will be compromised and incomplete.

Specifically, what STATUS information would be missing and why does it need to be recorded?

Resolution

Dispatch is capable of providing some functionality that is not necessarily CRITICAL to the processing of reports, but provides various features that can be exploited.

The 4 functionalities that Dispatch is capable of providing, that are enabled through ENF EVENTS are:

1. Getting your Dispatch Bundle Queued STATUS records updated from BQ to BP and actually listing the print time. These are the records that you see when you select option 4 from the main menu.
2. Invoking Abend Handling (As defined on the VRDMU110 - REPORT BASE DEFINITION SCREEN).
3. Displaying abend information in the TERM field on the VOVMI200 MSGCLASS JOB SELECTION screen.
4. Determining the generation of PC download requests for those clients who download reports from Dispatch online viewing to their PC's.

Dispatch also performs a "catch up" process known as the CHECKPOINT process every time it is started. The CHECKPOINT function will identify all EVENTS that have taken place while Dispatch was down.

In order for Dispatch to successfully perform the CHECKPOINT function, the Datacom/AD database (MUF) for ENF must be defined and the Dispatch events MUST be recorded. This will allow any/all of the Dispatch functionalities that are enabled through EVENTS to work correctly and consistently "all of the time" and across recycles and IPL's. Recording events allows Dispatch to find them when performing the CHECKPOINT function.