FROM

Step at which the job must be restarted. Mandatory. Valid values are:

• pgmstep – program step within the job stream (see the following note)
• pgmstep.procstep – program step within the called procedure (see the following note)
• $FIRST – first step of the job
• $ABEND – step of the job that ended NOTOK due to system abend, user abend, condition code C2000 (PL/1 abend) or JFAIL (job failed on JCL error)
  $ABEND is a subset of $EXERR (below)
• $FIRST.$ABEND – first step of the abended procedure
• $FIRST.$CLEANUP – this reserved keyword instructs Control-M to run a Control-M/Restart data set cleanup for the job
  Data set cleanup is performed from the first step of the job. The job itself is not restarted.
• $EXERR – job step that ended with any error, including an abend, or that ended with a condition code that is redefined using the ON and DO statements as ENDED NOTOK

Note: If, during a restart of the job, the Control-M/Restart step itself ends NOTOK, you must manually correct the problem encountered by the Control-M/Restart step and then restart the job once again. In such a case, Control-M/Restart does both of the following:

• It restores DO IF RERUN decisions to their state before the last execution of the job.
• It deactivates the DO RERUN action.

This enables Control-M/Restart to ignore the occurrence where the error arose during the operation of Control-M/Restart itself. This prevents rerun processing from looping.

TO

Step at which the restarted job must terminate. Optional. Valid values are:

• pgmstep – Program step within the job stream (see the following note).
• pgmstep.procstep – Program step within the called procedure (see the following note).

If not specified, the restarted job terminates at the last job step that would normally be executed.

Note: For both FROM and TO steps, pgmstep is the name of the step (EXEC statement) that executes the program from which to begin or end the restart:

//pgmstep EXEC PGM=program

procstep is the name of the step (EXEC statement) that invokes the procedure from which the above pgmstep program is executed:

//procstep EXEC procedure

pgmstep and procstep values can each be 1 through 8 characters.

When specifying a procstep when the procedures are nested, the innermost procstep in which the program is included must be specified.

CONFIRM

Specifies whether a manual confirmation is required before the job is restarted. Valid values are:

• Y (Yes) – Confirmation required. The job restart is not submitted unless a manual confirmation is entered in the Active Environment screen.
• N (No) – No confirmation required. The job restart can be automatically submitted (by the DO RERUN statement) without a manual confirmation. Default.