Advanced Handling

In many instances, a job will produce exception messages inside a report, indicating that there are processing errors, but will not actually fail the job. Normally, these exceptions will not be noticed until the following day, when users receive reports or try to use online systems. This often means that the previous night's work must be redone, and that online systems are unavailable for users while corrective measures are being taken.

If other INCONTROL products are operational at your site, you can take advantage of their integrated architecture to perform some of the following actions, based on exception messages appearing in reports:

• Automatically execute a Control-M/Analyzer rule (DO CTBRULE) to perform quality assurance checking procedures, for example, comparing totals, and so on.
• Automatically set prerequisite conditions (DO COND) that impact the processing of jobs under Control-M, for example, to cause or prevent job submission.
• Automatically execute a Control-O rule, for example, to suspend processing and ask the operators if they want to continue.
• Automatically execute a Control-M/Links for Windows NT rule, for example, to issue a pager notification to the relevant support person indicating the nature of the problem.

Assign a Remark to a Report

You can assign a remark to a report based on the appearance of a particular string, using parameter DO REMARK. The remark can be up to sixteen characters in length, and can be displayed in the Online Viewing facility and printed on the user's report.

  ON CLASS      = T         EXTWTR               DEST          FORM           

  PRT COPIES    LVL    USER                      DEST          MAX COPIES     

      PRINT/CDAM PARMS =                                                      

  WHEN LINE 00003 - 00003 COL 00010 - 00032 PRINT   REF NXT   CT     AND/OR

       STRING = GENERAL LEDGER REPORT                                         

    DO USER     = DVACP                 LVL    LINE     COL     -     S   T   

                                        SYNONYM =       CONCAT =              

    DO NAME     = GEN LEDGE REP                LINE     COL                  

    DO                                                                        

  WHEN LINE 00040 - 00040 COL 00032 - 00042 PRINT   REF NXT   CT     AND/OR

       STRING = UNBALANCED                                                   

    DO USER     = DVAC                   LVL    LINE     COL     -     S   T  

                                         SYNONYM =       CONCAT =            

    DO NAME     = GEN LEDGE REP                                               

    DO REMARK   = UNBAL                                                      

    DO                                                                        

In the above example, recipient DVACP receives the General Ledger report on a daily basis. If the string UNBALANCED appears in any pages in the specified location, a copy of those pages is allocated as a report to recipient DVAC, for analysis. The report is also assigned the remark UNBAL, which can be displayed online, attracting the user's attention to the exception report.