finger check !!
I replied thinking of a REAL environment
/smiley ON
the interviewer' s IT shops are usually managed in the worst manner !
/smiley OFF
You can Trigger a transaction or better said a TASK
using INTERVAL CONTROL...
You interviewer should know that he was trying to cheat on You
Time initiated tasks should have a very short deadline..
it means initiated within a very short interval
CICS is not meant to be a scheduling environment..
all the tasks in a CICS environment
apart some system long running tasks
should be action/reaction
I don't know how relevant is the below info with respect to this question.
In one of my earlier projects (production support) I have seen scheduling the jobs through Unix system. But those jobs were batch jobs and used SAS to process the data. Later we changed the scheduling environment from Unix to Control - M.
In one of my earlier projects (production support) I have seen scheduling the jobs through Unix system
that' s because unix has a builtin scheduling support ( for time driven tasks at least )
called CRON or ANACRON depending on the flavor.. unix, aix, linux, linux distribution
I do not know about dependency resolution in unix because I didn' t need them
