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Resubmitting DCL and batch failures?  » close window  The
Question is:  Dear Wizard, I have batch job that runs from
approximately 8:00am to 8:00pm daily that  collects Monitor
performance statistics. Before shutting down for the night,  it
resubmits itself for the following day. Occasionally (perhaps 1
out of 20 days), the job fails to restart the next  morning. The
log file says only this: Error opening primary input file
SYS$INPUT File not found   KING job terminated at 1-JUN-2000
07:57:25.95 I'm not sure what this error means. It doesn't have
a standard error format and  the .COM file it is trying to run
looks fine. Any thoughts? Kevin King  The Answer is :  Error
opening primary input file SYS$INPUT File not found   error
means precisely what it says. The batch procedure was not found.
The most likely cause for this error is that someone (perhaps
youself)   has editted the command procedure and purged away the
old version.   When you submit a batc