Yes, you can use an MPF exit to catch the JCL error. The messages are merely different messages, so you would have your MPF exit process whichever message you want to use as your trigger.
Sorry for the marketing: SyzMPF/z has a feature that will capture the condition codes (job failure or not) whenever any job ends and send an email (or text message) with all of that information (the codes from the steps that worked, the JCL error and any part(s) of the job output you might want) dynamically without any JCL changes to any job or any SMF exits being necessary. End of marketing. The point is,if there is a message from a job or because of a job, you can process it with am MPF exit. Sometimes it's not easy, but obviously (since I did it), it's possible. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN