CA Deliver - How are outputs being selected by Deliver?

Products

• Deliver

Issue/Introduction

We have two report names from the same jobname defined as below:

DDname    Report ID

F=AUMA    ABC #AUMA BP06

F=AUMA    DEF #AUMA BP06

We are getting two copies of the same report with the ABC name and no reports with the DEF name.

The "no report" example:

Sel   Sysout ID                        Arch Date
==>  DEF #AUMA*                       *
************************************************

The duplicate report:

Sel   Sysout ID                                                Arch Date   Time
==>  ABC #AUMA*                                         *                  *
        ABC #AUMA BP06 ASMCOST ADT       06/25/2021 06:02
        ABC #AUMA BP06 ASMCOST ADT       06/25/2021 06:01

It is suspected that Deliver selects the first match on jobname/form name, but why are 2 copies of the same report appearing under ABC and nothing under DEF?

Environment

Release : 14.0

Component : CA Deliver

Resolution

The client was using only the form criteria (F=form_name in the DD field) in their Deliver job definition:

DDname     Report ID
F=AUMA     ABC #AUMA BP06 BLK CDS ADT
F=AUMB     ABC #AUMB BP06 UOMCONV ADT
F=AUMA     DEF #AUMA BP06 BLK CDS ADT
F=AUMB     DEF #AUMB BP06 UOMCONV ADT

As such, Deliver was selecting the first match it found in the reports list for the job, which was always the first occurrence (the ABC reports). 

As a result, there was never a match for the second occurrence (the DEF reports), so the content for the DEF reports were being processed as ABC reports. 

To ensure proper processing, the client will modify the form name for the second copy and use multiple JCL OUTPUT statements. 

This way, one DD can reference more than one form name and multiple outputs can be generated.