S222- Job Cancelled

S222 means the job or step was cancelled by someone or by the system - it is not a bug in your program.

What it means

• The step was stopped deliberately before it finished - no dump analysis of program logic is needed.
• S222 is an administrative event, so do not spend time debugging the program code.

Common causes

• An operator issued the CANCEL command for the job or the step.
• The job was cancelled on request from TSO/ISPF (for example, from the SDSF DA panel).
• A JES operator command or automation cancelled the job.

How to find it

• S222 is recorded with a reason in the SYSLOG and the job log - it tells who or what requested the cancel.
• No program dump is needed; the log shows the cancel, not a program failure.

How to fix it

• Find out why the job was cancelled - ask the operator or check the SYSLOG reason.
• Fix the underlying reason (wrong job submitted, resource held too long) and resubmit the job.
• Nothing in the program needs to be changed.

Example

• The operator command that cancels a running job:-
  
  C MYJOB
• After this command, the step abends with S222. A sample step:-
  
  //S222JOB JOB (ACCT),'CANCEL TEST',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X //STEP1 EXEC PGM=MYPROG //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*