Conditionally complete an application based on the completion code of one of its jobs

Products

• ESP Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

How to conditionally complete an application based on the completion code returned by one of its jobs?

Resolution

If job A does not complete, its conditional success task CHECK.A will complete the application.  CHECK.A is a self-completing task.

If job A completes normally, it releases B, B releases C.  Task CHECK.A is bypassed due to the 'conditional' parameter.

Example:

  APPL DEMO
  JCLLIB 'DEMO.JCLLIB'
  CCCHK RC(1:4095) FAIL
  JOB A
    RUN ANY
    MEMBER A
    RELEASE (B,CHECK.A(A))
  ENDJOB
  JOB CHECK.A TASK CONDITIONAL
    RUN ANY
    ESPNOMSG AJ ALL APPL(%ESPAPPL..%ESPAPGEN) COMPLETE
  ENDJOB
  JOB B
    RUN ANY
    MEMBER B
    RELEASE C
  ENDJOB
  JOB C
    RUN ANY
    MEMBER C
  ENDJOB

The use of the ESPAPPL and ESPAPGEN symbolic variables is recommended over any other implementation.