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getvichu2000
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I have three Jobs A,B and C
A Job is a dataset triggered Job and C job is successor of A , will run after A completed and it uses the file created in A Job
There is also another JOb B that checks if A job has started or not every half an hour for 7 times
(That is being done , by creating a dummy file in A job's 1st step and B job will check the creation of that file to ensure A job has started)
if after even seven times, the file from A job's 1st step is not created (i.e A job has not started), then B Job remove the relationship between A and C and gives a dummy feed to C and make C to run
The problem is since A and B are creating a new version of same GDG to give to C, A job goes to hold as soon as B job has started
A job's step 5 is creating that GDG version
B job's step 8 is creating the same GDG version
But what's is happening is even though the trigger dataset for A job has arrived , that job is on hold since B job started using the GDG
J E S 2 J O B L O G
A JOB IN HOLD
REQ SERVICE DSNAME
EXC STANDBY GDG.VERSION1
I want A job to run till step 5 even though B job is running. Because then only the file from A job's 1st step will be created and B job will check that and will be ended
Can anyone help me how to resolve this issue |
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Robert Sample
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Sure -- change your logic. Since a job creating a new generation places an enqueue on the GDG base name, A job step 5 and B job step 8 both buildilng GDG generations means one of these jobs is going to wait until the other is done, and the order depends on which one starts first. Since you cannot get around this, you need to rethink your logic. |
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getvichu2000
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Thanks for the reply
But is there a way to make A job run all the steps before that step which creates GDG version? |
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Robert Sample
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| Yep -- put the step that creates the GDG version last. You cannot make JCL execute in any order except the physical order of steps that was submitted. Change the order of the steps to change how they execute. |
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Bill Dennis
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| Re-ordering the steps won't let JOB A start while JOB B is creating the same GDG. |
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Anuj Dhawan
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Hi,
By the way - what's the main purpose of JOB B, is it used only to "initiate" JOB C ? |
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