Events that occurred in jobs that ran with MSGLEVEL other than 1, which would not have been caught by CMEM or Control-O, will be caught by CTMEVRT as SMF has no indication of MSGLEVEL. In general, this is not a problem since rules would not be written for such jobs.
CTMEVRT-CTMEVEX process carries out only the DO COND and DO FORCEJOB options. All other DO actions are listed, but are commented with (*) Unsupported action - not executed.
DO COND with CONDOPT “?” will be ignored, as well as DO FORCEJOB with DATE set to anything other than a specific date, ODAT, or DATE.
CTMEVRT cannot consider scheduling criteria and/or IN conditions for Control-O rules. These actions are commented with (!) Sched / IN conditions in the rule. You will need to manually review these actions.
CTMEVRT cannot figure out whether conditions of a preceding IF, WHILE, or TERMINAT statement were met or not. These actions are commented with (?) Conditional-IF/WHILE/TERM precedes. You will need to manually review these actions
CTMEVRT cannot consider PRIORITY and CONTINUE SEARCH parameters of Control-O rules. Note that these parameters could affect other active rules. Therefore, if you have rules with CONTINUE SEARCH = N, locate and manually review rules that might not get control.
NCT2 events will not be caught since they are not reported by any standard SMF record. The report will issue a warning message if a rule for NCT2 event was found in definitions.
Dataset deletion by IDCAMS and IKJEFT01 SYSIN is recognized by CMEM/Control-O as DISP=KEEP. The utility will recognize these events as DISP=SCRATCH.This limitation is documented in Control-O manuals.
When JCL allocates a dataset, without opening or cataloging it, CMEM/Control-O recognizes a DISP=K event; but in such case, CTMEVRT does not recognize the event.
CMEM/Control-O cannot detect new dataset creation when the dataset is passed to a subsequent step (that is, DISP=(..,PASS,..)). The utility will report such events.
For batch jobs, the utility will require STEP-END SMF record in order to avoid a wrong DISP assignment caused by not seeing the entire picture (for example, seeing DISP=CATLG but missing the deletion at step termination). In special cases, the DSNEVENT will be listed with a comment that the step has not ended. This will allow the user to manually review the dataset’s disposition.
CMEM/Control-O cannot detect data sets created using DEFINE by IDCAMS; the utility will list such events as DISP=C.
