IV70565: RMSTDLIST ABENDS DUE TO HANDLES ON OLD LOGS. JOBMON RUNNING FROM DATE OF OLD LOGS

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Our Cleanup job (running the standard rmstdlist command) is
  abending because there are handles in currently running jobs and
  in JOBMON to logs that are due to be deleted. JOBMON is running
  still from the date that the log is from. Jobs have been
  running every day during SWITCHPLAN which apparently keeps
  JOBMON from recycling.
  
  Logs are not being removed per their retention schedule, abends
  are requiring time to investigate that could be spent doing
  other things.
  
  My concern here is 3 fold:
  
  
  1)  abending due to "normal" behavior causes us to have to spend
  time troubleshooting that could be avoided
  
  2)  abending and not deleting the rest of the files that are due
  to be deleted means that this normal behavior is causing
  abnormal retention of logs that are due to be deleted
  
  3)  deleting the logs held by JOBMON depending on when they were
  created rather than when they were last updated can cause the
  data at the end of the log to be deleted before the standard 15
  days retention (as soon and rmstdlist is run after JOBMON
  recycles)
  

Local fix

• Hi L2, let me explain that if a Job stays in EXEC for multiple
  times JOBMON process will be up and running during the days
  using the stdlist for example of the days before when the jobs
  started to be executed.
  
  So the stdlist files that cannot be removed will be there still
  since JOBMON stays up and running across the days and these
  files will be naturally removed when the JOBS will complete
  successfully for these days.
  
  The "rmstdlist" cannot delete the stdlist used by JobMon when
  it is up and running but what we can evaluate "improvement" that
  rmstdlist can avoid to generate the ABEND on the customer
  job that run the rmstdlist.
  

Problem summary

•  see apar description.
  

Problem conclusion

•  This apar will be fixed into
  8.5.1 fp6,92 fp2, 91 fp3,86 fp4.
  This apar will fix these 2 scenarios:
  1)  abending due to "normal" behavior causes us to have to spend
  time
  troubleshooting that could be avoided
  
    >> Job that run rmstdlist will not abend when not able to
  remove a stdlist file. Rmstdlist needs to be modified.
  
  2)  abending and not deleting the rest of the files that are due
  to be
  deleted means that this normal behavior is causing abnormal
  retention of
  logs that are due to be deleted
  >>rmstdlist command will needs to continue the work and try to
  delete any files even if one of them
  cannot be deleted since it could be locked. The rmstdlist should
  continyue the processing of files deletion.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  TIV WKLD SCHDL

• Fixed component ID

  5698WKB85

Applicable component levels

• R8A5 PSY

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