A JCL has 4 steps and job abends. How to restart the job and run only

1.	A JCL has 4 steps and job abends. How to restart the job and run only step 2?
Answer» Specify RESTART = STEP2 in JOB statement. And include IF-THEN-ELSE construct as below− //URMIIF JOB 1, CLASS=6, MSGCLASS=0, NOTIFY = &SYSUID,RESTART=STEP2//*//STEP1 EXEC//STEP2 EXEC//IF1 IF (STEP2.RC = 0 & STEP2.RC <> 0) THEN//STEP3 EXEC//STEP4 EXEC//ENDIF

A JCL has 4 steps and job abends. How to restart the job and run only step 2?

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Specify RESTART = STEP2 in JOB statement. And include IF-THEN-ELSE construct as below−

//URMIIF JOB 1, CLASS=6, MSGCLASS=0, NOTIFY = &SYSUID,RESTART=STEP2//*//STEP1   EXEC//STEP2   EXEC//IF1     IF (STEP2.RC = 0 & STEP2.RC <> 0) THEN//STEP3      EXEC//STEP4      EXEC//ENDIF

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