Re: return() and retain job log

[Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Robert,

images aren't passed through the list.


Am 31.12.2025 um 03:30 schrieb rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> To cause the system to consider a job has "aborted", and thus produce a joblog spool file, the job must send an *ESCAPE type message with a severity *GE to the End severity on the *JOBD used to submit that job (Img-1).

Thanks. So the C style return value aren't honored.

> Note: The escape msg must be sent to the subsystem routing PGM, usually QCMD. (see Img-2)  If you have a "non-standard" *SBSD with your own routing PGM, then you will have to see how that considers a job to have aborted.

Thanks for the hint. The send pgm message API hat a lot of options, and I have not yet achieved a comfortable level of understanding about messages. But I'll try.

:wq! PoC