General Information for DO SYSOUT

The Control-M monitor, unless otherwise instructed, leaves the job SYSOUT in HELD class in the output queue.

The DO SYSOUT parameter is used to request additional handling of these held sysouts when the accompanying ON criteria are satisfied.

The Control-M monitor sends all SYSOUT handling requests to JES, which processes the instructions. If, however, the copying of sysouts to a file is requested (option F), Control-M requests the sysouts from JES and then Control-M directly writes the sysouts to the file.

Since only one SYSOUT statement can be defined in a job scheduling definition, DO SYSOUT statements can be used, as follows, to specify additional sysout handling instructions when the job ends OK:

• To define DO SYSOUT statements that operate like a SYSOUT statement (that is, that operate only when the job ends OK), define their accompanying ON statement with PGMST value ANYSTEP and code value OK.
• The interrelationship between multiple SYSOUT operations (by SYSOUT and DO SYSOUT statements) is described in Multiple SYSOUT Operations.