MON-PRECALL workflow overview - syncsort_scc_monitor - Latest

The Predictive Recall application can be implemented in five steps:

1. Job Scheduling software is used to generate a list of jobs for the Predictive Recall application to consider. This list is used to create INCLUDE control statements for the JCL members to be processed by MON-PRECALL.

2. MON-PRECALL uses the INCLUDE cards created in Step 1 to expand the JCL used by the production jobs. The product then scans the expanded JCL to locate the fully qualified data set names, and creates a list of probable input data sets using the disposition parameter (DISP=OLD/SHR/MOD). The data set list is sorted and duplicates are removed.

3. A catalog lookup is done for each data set. If the VOLSER is MIGRAT, an HRECALL statement is generated. The HRECALL statements can be passed directly to the Inactive Data Mover or listed for storage administrator review.

   Note: For GDGBASE data set requests, a specially formatted GDG list is created to be passed to the next step to invoke the catalog and obtain all generation names.

4. Obtain all generation names for each GDGBASE data set passed from the previous step. If the VOLSER is MIGRAT, generate an HRECALL statement for migrated generations.

5. Execute the generated HRECALL commands from the migrated data set lists obtained from Steps 3 and 4.