If you boot an Enterprise Server region that shares a catalog with another Enterprise Server region that is currently running, the boot process flushes the restarted server's active jobs to the Held Output queue. As a result, these jobs disappear from each region's Active queue. The flush process only flushes jobs that have the same region name as the newly started region.
When a job is moved from Active to Output Hold as a result of a server restart, the Completion Code as viewed in the JES Output Hold queue is set to RFLS. This indicates that the job was flushed as a result of a restart.
To modify this behaviour, there is an environment variable that you can set to disable it.
If the environment variable ES_JES_DISABLE_RESTART_FLUSH is set to any value, then a region's jobs are not moved from the Active queue to the Output Hold queue when the region is re-started.
The recommended way to use this environment variable is to:
This prevents the Online servers from purging the JES Active queue when they are cycled.