A bound z/OS shadow job is carried forward indefinitely

A z/OS shadow job, defined for the distributed environment, is successfully bound to a remote z/OS® job, but the z/OS shadow job never completes and is carried forward indefinitely.

Cause and solution:

A Refresh Current Plan operation was performed on the remote IBM Z Workload Scheduler instance. Because this operation scratches the current plan, the remote z/OS® job instance binding was removed.

To prevent the z/OS shadow job from being indefinitely carried forward, manually cancel the z/OS shadow job instance in the distributed engine plan.

For instructions on how to do this, see the cancel job topic in the Managing objects in the plan - conman chapter of the IBM Workload Scheduler: User's Guide and Reference.