How to define a job to run once if any of its predecessors ended abnormally.

Products

• ESP Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Show an example of an application that runs a job once if any of its predecessors ended abnormally.

Resolution

Objective:  Setup and run a job once, only if any of its predecessors ends abnormally.

   Job JOB99 has 4 predecessors: Job JOB01, JOB02, JOB03, and JOB04.  
   Job JOB99 runs once if any of its 4 predecessor jobs had abended or ended with a non-zero condition code.   

Example:

APPL JOB
JCLLIB 'hlq.JCLLIB'
CCCHK RC(1:4095) Fail Continue

JOB JOB
  RUN DAILY
  RELEASE ADD(JOB99(A))
ENDJOB

JOB JOB02
 RUN DAILY
 RELEASE ADD(JOB99(A))
ENDJOB

JOB JOB03
 RUN DAILY
 RELEASE ADD(JOB99(A))
ENDJOB

JOB JOB04
 RUN DAILY
 RELEASE ADD(JOB99(A))
ENDJOB

JOB JOB99 CONDITIONAL    ->>  This job is bypassed if not executed  
 RUN DAILY
 RELCOUNT 3                        ->>  This job runs after one predecessor is satisfied.  It does not wait for all 4 predecessors.
ENDJOB

Note: RELCOUNT represents the number of predecessors that need not be satisfied for this job to run.