Triggering the job from a dataset

Murari Chakrakodi · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:07 pm

Hi,

Is there any way to trigger a job from a dataset?
My requirement is as follows:

A job has to be triggered immedietely after a dataset or new GDG generation is created.

Thanks,
Murari

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:16 pm

hemanth.nandas · Active User Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 120 Location: India

Hi Murari,

Murari Chakrakodi · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:28 pm

Hi,

Actually I am tranmitting a file from one mainframe system to another.The job has to be triggered in other system

Thanks,
Murari

murmohk1 · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:34 pm

Murari,

Cathy · New User Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Romania

Hi,

Does anyone know if the dataset triggering the job needs to contain data in order to do the triggering?

I have a job which is triggered when the triggering dataset has data, but when it is empty the job is not triggered any more.

Srinivasa Rao · New User Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 75

Murari Chakrakodi

Triggering can be done from one system to another system if other system uses some scheduling tool (Eg CA7, Control-M etc) and the triggering schedule should be defined in the tool by a scheduler.

Send you dataset name and the job to be triggered by the dataset to the scheduler and he will arrange it for you.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:26 pm

check Your scheduler documentation

for OPC now Tivoli workload scheduler
here is a page regarding dataset triggering
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/eqqtig00/2.2.6.12?ACTION=MATCHES&REQUEST=dataset+trigger&TYPE=FUZZY&SHELF=EQQTBK00.bks&DT=20020717114311&CASE=&searchTopic=TOPIC&searchText=TEXT&searchIndex=INDEX&rank=RANK&ScrollTOP=FIRSTHIT#FIRSTHIT
which might explain the behaviour You experience

Cathy · New User Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Romania

expat · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:21 pm

It may be that the empty dataset is not opened / closed because it is empty, and I seem to recall that some scheduler software uses SMF data to detect a dataset has been written to, and if it is not written to then there will be no SMF record created.