Record Type 5 (05) — Job Termination

Record type 5 is written at the normal or abnormal termination of a background job.

Note: IBM® recommends that you use record type 30 rather than record types 4, 5, 20, 34, 35, and 40. Use of record type 5 may cause you to miss key workload indicators.

This record identifies the job by job log identification, user identification, priority, input class, and programmer's name. If accounting numbers (which can be alphameric) were specified in the JOB statement, they are included. The job name, time, and date that the reader recognized the Job card (for this job) constitute the job log identification. If the job that is terminating is ‘JES2’ or ‘JES3’ then these might be set to zero.

This record also contains operating information such as:

The job step start and end times
Number of steps in the job
Number of records in DD DATA and DD* data sets (processed by the job)
Job termination status
Device class
Unit type
Storage protect key
Job service and job CPU time (the job CPU time equals the sum of the job step times).

When a step in a multi-step job terminates abnormally, the subsequent steps, whether processed or flushed, do not propagate the step abend code for processing by this record. The code appears in the step termination record (type 4). Offset 55, can contain X'nnnn' or X'0000' (the job termination indicator (offset 65, bit 6) is set to 1 if an abend occurred in the job).

For more information on service, transaction active time, and performance group number see z/OS MVS Initialization and Tuning Guide. For more information on EXCP count and CPU time, see EXCP Count and CPU Time respectively.