Controlling the Generic Process

You can control generic processing by turning it off and on. This process is performed through operator commands. By default, generic processing is started when Control‑D is started (unless it was previously deactivated by an operator command).

One reason that generic processing may be deactivated is if the Control‑D New Day procedure (CTDNDAY) fails to schedule the generic missions to the Active Missions file. When generic processing is deactivated, the generic missions do not select output from the defined generic classes.

Generic processing may also be deactivated if an error occurs while updating the Active User file during decollation. In this case generic processing is deactivated to prevent the deletion of sysouts from the spool without the creation of relevant reports in the Active User file.

To stop generic processing, issue the following operator command:

To start generic processing, issue the following operator command: