Browsing the list of job steps

When a controller switch occurs, you might want to browse the list of steps that were run for the jobs in started status before the switch occurred.

Before you begin

To generate a list of the step events related to the jobs that were run, enable the step awareness function. In this way, the tracker creates the list of step events and sends it to the primary controller. The primary controller logs the step list and sends it to the backup controller, if any.

Enable the step awareness function on the backup controller to ensure that when the backup controller takes over from the primary controller, you can browse the list of steps for all the jobs that are in plan.

To enable the step awareness function from the ISPF panels, see HCL Workload Automation: Planning and Installation. To enable the step awareness function by setting the STEPINFO parameter, see the EWTROPTS and JTOPTS statements.

Note: You can also generate a list of the operations that were in Started status on the primary controller when the backup controller took over its functions. To do so, set the Started at Startup field to Y in the SELECTING OPERATIONS (EQQSOPFP) panel. For details about the SELECTING OPERATIONS panel, see Specifying list criteria.

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To browse the list of step events:
  1. From the SELECTING APPLICATION OCCURRENCE AND OPERATION INFORMATION (EQQSOPSP) panel, select option 15 STEP LIST or from the OPERATIONS IN THE CURRENT PLAN (EQQMOPRV and EQQSOPRV) panels, enter the Browse STEP LIST (BSL) command.
    The Step List (EQQSSTEL) panel is displayed:
    Figure 1. EQQSSTEL - Step List
    EQQSSTEL --------------------------- STEP LIST ----------------------Row 1 to 3 of 3 
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Application                     : PAYRUN2        14/9/23  00.00
Operation                       : CPU1 1
Jobname and Jobid               : JOB1           JOB01217
Reader date and time            : 14/09/24 15.08
                                                                                         
Step   StepName   ProcStep    Compl. Flushed  Abended     Start          End             
No                            Code                        Time           Time            
0001              STEP1       0000   No       No          14/09/24 15.08 14/09/24 15.08
0002              STEP5       S806   No       Yes         14/09/24 15.08 14/09/24 15.08
0003              STEP9       0000   Yes      No          14/09/24 15.08 14/09/24 15.08
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  2. According to the results shown, perform the actions that are appropriate to the job that you are browsing.
Note: If after reestablishing the connection between the primary controller and backup controller the system needs to resend the plans to recover the lost data, some information about the step events might be lost on the backup controller.