Dealing With Abnormally Terminated Batch Processes

When a batch process abnormally terminates, its status remains In Progress. This is because there is no way for the terminated job to execute logic that would cause its status to be Error.

Circumstances that can cause abnormal termination include:

• A process encounters a severe database error.
• An operator manually terminates a process that is locked in an infinite loop.

Because the batch process's status is In Progress, the system will not know that it should be restarted the next time the batch process is requested. Therefore, you must change the status of the batch run and its threads to be Error in order for the system to restart the process. To do this, you must run another batch process called UPDERR- Change A Batch Run's Status to Error.