The scheduler suggests the best restart step in the
job, depending on how the job ended in the previous run.
Determining the best restart step summarizes how the scheduler
selects the best restart step.
Table 1. Determining the best restart step
| How the Job Ended |
Best Restart Step |
| The job terminated in error with an abend or JCL
error for non-syntactical reasons. |
Last restartable step |
| There was a sequence of consecutive, flushed steps. |
Last restartable step |
| The last run was a stand-alone cleanup action performed
according to the IMMEDLOGIC(FIRSTSTEP) parameter. |
First restartable step |
| All other situations. |
First restartable step |