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useit

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 11:53 am
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hi all,

i have a job JLXXDN0 where N is day number.N=(1-7).

i have 5 steps inside the job. s1,s2,s3,s4,s5,

from day 1-6 i need to execute all the 5 steps.

but in the day 7 (on sunday)i need to bypass first 3 and execute
last 2 steps only.

i think if i can extract the jobnumber or day number then put
this into sequential file .then i can achieve this.

is there any way i can extract day number or job number ?

i searched forum but didnt get much info.saw few rexx code but i never worked on REXX.

plzz help me regardig the same..

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Bill Woodger

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 12:04 pm
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Have you tried talking to the team who operate your scheduler?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 12:10 pm
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yes i spoke to him. he said this can be done through jcl.but he is not sure how:(. i simply dont want to go for another new job. i want to achieve this in the same job.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 12:20 pm
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I was thinking more that the Scheduler knows what day of the week it is, rather than your man would have the particular skills to help out with some fudge...

Presumably something is generating your job names (I wonder what) so knows about Sunday's. So something there...
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:03 pm
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Or the people in schedular central can't be bothered to do some work icon_lol.gif
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:08 pm
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Or the question was "can I do it in a (piece of) JCL?" rather than "please can you suggest a method whereby it can be done in the scheduler?"

In which case, "yes, I'm sure you can do it somehow in a JCL" can be a good answer whilst preparing the solution anyway. Too much to hope, I suppose :-)
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:56 pm
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hi,
can I include one more step in the existing jcl ?if i can extract the job/day number in sequential file later we can check for that file empty/noempty conditions and bypass the required steps.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:00 pm
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By the look of jobnames, terminologies referring to systems in your previous posts, i strongly doubt that your client was my ex-employer & can relate to the scheduler team responses & lengthy approval processes :-)

For the problem at hand, if you want a non-scheduler approach,

You can have a sort step in the JCL that returns a return code based on the current day.
Customise the COND parameter in each step and make them run as needed.

On Sunday the below step will return RC of 0. Other days RC=16

Code:
//STEP010 EXEC PGM=SORT           
//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*           
//SYMNAMES DD *                   
CUR_DAY,S'&WDAY'                 
/*                               
//SORTIN   DD *                   
SUNDAY                           
/*                               
//SORTOUT  DD SYSOUT=*           
//SYSIN     DD *                 
  OPTION COPY,NULLOUT=RC16       
  INCLUDE COND=(1,3,CH,EQ,CUR_DAY)
/*                               
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:01 pm
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Or the REXX code is available on the forum if you search
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:07 pm
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SuperK's collections:
ibmmainframes.com/about6737.html
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:20 pm
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vasanth,
thanx a ton.your code is working fine:) .

thanx again..

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:33 pm
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To put another broken record on the turntable...

Now, make sure your JOB always runs before midnight (at least the date-getting step). Make sure it never abends and has to be re-submitted after midnight. Make sure you never need to re-run the job for any reason except on a Sunday (before midnight).

Else, remember you have to change the JOB in those situations, just so it runs correctly.
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