Job went into HELD status and remains in ESP Input queue

Products

• ESP Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

A job showed in the ESP INPUT queue, status is RE-QUEUED AT END OF MEMORY AND HELD.  

The operation team cancelled the job, but it still showed in the Input queue on CSF, and in the Workstation Director.

Should this job move from the Input queue to the failure queue?

Environment

Release : All Releases of ESP Workload Automation

Cause

ESP uses SMF records to track jobs.

When terminated with END OF MEMORY or an initiator abend, there is no SMF type 05 (JOBTERM) record, and therefore ESP does not know what happened to the job.   As far as ESP knows, the job is still running. 

Resolution

There is nothing in ESP to handle this type situation. Suggested using OPS/MVS or another automation tool to take action based on the $HASP311 message.