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rakeshreddy
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Hi Friends..
I have a JCL with couple of jobs in it..
Each step does has it's own usage...
is there a way to start the second job after 15 sec's the first job got submitted..and so forth to th next job..
AS below..
JOB1
---------15 SEC WAIT
JOB2
---------15 SEC WAIT
JOB3
---------15 SEC WAIT
and so on.........
i want to maintain the time gap of 15 sec between each job in the JCL.. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| i want to maintain the time gap of 15 sec between each job in the JCL.. |
What business reason might there be to do such a thing. . . .  |
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Arun Raj
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rakeshreddy,
I think you should be able to do this with the help of your scheduling team. But what is the reason behind this 15 sec "wait-tme"? |
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superk
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| Rakesh, a search on the keywords "SLEEP" or "WAIT" ought to give you enough ideas to work with. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| is there a way to start the second job after 15 sec's the first job got submitted..and so forth to th next job.. |
IMHO, i believe there should be an understanding of the requirement before solutions/suggestions/alternatives are offered. . .
Notice the request asks for the ability to wait 15 seconds after submission - not 15 seconds after the job starts or ends, but after being submitted.
As i asked originally, what business requirement might be served by doing this?
It sounds (so far) like this another of the things that are technically possible, but should not be done. . . |
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Terry Heinze
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| It sounds (so far) like this another of the things that are technically possible, but should not be done. . . |
Agree completely. Wasting initiatior time is highly undesireable. |
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expat
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Anuj Dhawan
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Hi,
You need to re-think how to implement your requirement the requirement is not to keep initiators waiting in some step - that is your attempt to meet the requirement.
I suspect that you want to wait until some condition is met. This could be hours or worse case - never.
If several people implemented their process doing as you want to do, the mainframe would come to a complete halt because all of the initiators/partitions were "waiting". |
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rakeshreddy
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Hi Friends..
below is the description:
I have a JCL with multiple jobs( above 50 jobs) in it.
and the JOB Card is SAME for all the jobs (including the JOB NAME and I can't chnage the job name)
My doubt is :
Will the Job's execute in the SAME ORDER as they are in JCL (or) they will execute in RANDOM order?
My requirement is the JOBS should execute in SAME order as they are in JCL..
So i thought of using a WAIT parameter to make the second job execute after 15 sec to First Job..
If any of you can confirm that " the jobs will execute in the SAME order as they are in JCL"... i no need to use any WAIT Parameter.. i can directly submit the jcl.
Please suggest me on this... |
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expat
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So why did you not spend 10 minutes setting up and testing this scenario, rather than post it on here ?
10 minutes is all that it would have took, if even that. |
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Anuj Dhawan
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| Aaarghh..! |
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Robert Sample
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Something to be aware of in the JCL Language Reference manual (emphasis added by me):
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| In a JES2 system, there are a number of factors that determine the order in which a particular job is selected for execution. Therefore, you cannot be assured that job priority (based on the PRTY you assign a job), job class, or the order of job submission will guarantee that the jobs will execute in a particular order. If you need to submit jobs in a specific order, contact your JES2 system programmer for advice based on how your system honors such requests |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Two ways to guarantee that the jobs run in order are to
1. Use the system scheduler
2. Have each job submit the subsequent job via the internal reader (job1 submits job2, job2 submits job3, etc.
IMHO, using the scheduler is the better choice. |
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