Depletable Resources

[Legacy User]

I have an issue with the Depletable resources.
I have 3 jobs running in 2 different applications . JOB B in APPL A should run only after JOB A and JOB C completes. So I defined a Enterprise Depletable resource with AVAIL(4)
BUt the issue that I am having is even after JOB A and JOB C completes and depletes the resource, JOB B does not start executing.
I checked the resource after the compelion of JOB A and JOB C, the resource AVAIL count is 0. Can someone please help me with this ?

APPL A

JOB A
RESOURCE ADD(1,RES_AB)
RUN NOW
RELEASE ADD(B)
ENDJOB

JOB B
RESOURCE ADD(^RES_AB)
RUN NOW
ENDJOB

APPL C

JOB C
RESOURCE ADD(1,RES_AB)
RUN NOW
ENDJOB


Regards,
Amit Kumar

[Petr Vacula]

Hello Amit,

resource name ^RES_AB is not in allowed format and I am not aware that this would mean negation. You might consider using an EXTERNAL job for your scenario. Just remove all the resources from your job definitions and add into application A this job:

JOB C EXTERNAL APPLID(C)
RUN NOW
RELEASE ADD(B)
ENDJOB

The external job C will be completed only when job C in application C is completed. Than it will release job B. Please see JOB parameters SCOPE and SCHEDULED for situations when the job C in application C ends before application A is generated.

Kind regards, petr

[Anon Anon]

Hi Amit,

I agree with Petr - an External job is much the better solution here.

Regards,
John

[Legacy User]

John/Peter,

I Should have probably included this before. Applications runs multiple times a day, that's why I used the resources.

[Richard Rozentals]

Hi

An important difforance between RESOUCES and EXPERNALS. An EXTERNAL will only be satisfied when the JOB has successfully completed. A RESOUSE is satisfied when the job finishes, this being completed or failed.

Richard

[Legacy User]

Richard,

That is correct, But if I define the RESOURCE with a HOLD Keyword on it, the resource will be held until the job completes succesfully.

But the problem that i am having here is the Depletable Resources not working properly. The ^RES_AB resource must allow the job to run, when the INVERT condition is satisfied and the Scratch Count becomes zero.

[Richard Rozentals]

Hi

About your example

JOB B
RESOURCE ADD(^RES_AB)
RUN NOW
ENDJOB



Are you coding ^RES_AB or ¬RES_AB

The little hat symbol ( ^ ) does not work, the not symbol ( ¬ )will look for a 0 resource. Can you double check this it may be a cut/paste issue and translation.

Richard

[Anon Anon]

Maybe try something like this.
Sherri


APPL A

JOB SET.JOBA TASK SELFCOMPLETING
RUN REF JOBA
ESPNOMSG RESDEF JOBA_DONE SET AVAIL(0)
RELEASE ADD(JOBA)
ENDJOB

JOB RESET.JOBA TASK SELFCOMPLETING
RUN REF JOBA
ESPNOMSG RESDEF JOBA_DONE SET AVAIL(1)
AFTER ADD(JOBA)
ENDJOB

JOB A
RUN NOW
ENDJOB

JOB B
RESOURCE ADD(JOBA_DONE)
RESOURCE ADD(JOBC_DONE)
RUN NOW
ENDJOB

APPL C
JOB SET.JOBC TASK SELFCOMPLETING
RUN REF JOBC
ESPNOMSG RESDEF JOBC_DONE SET AVAIL(0)
RELEASE ADD(JOBC)
ENDJOB

JOB RESET.JOBC TASK SELFCOMPLETING
RUN REF JOBC
ESPNOMSG RESDEF JOBC_DONE SET AVAIL(1)
AFTER ADD(JOBC)
ENDJOB

JOB C
RUN NOW
ENDJOB

[Anon Anon]

OOPS!!!!
This should be

JOB B
RESOURCE ADD(1,JOBA_DONE)
RESOURCE ADD(1,JOBC_DONE)
RUN NOW
ENDJOB

[Legacy User]

Sherri,

This will work in the case if APPL C comes in before APPL A . But if APPL A gets triggered in first, then JOB B will start executing since the resource JOBC_DONE was set to 1 from its previous run.

Regards,
Amit

[Anon Anon]

True...
what if you reset the resource back to 0 after JOB B finishes? See below

APPL A

JOB A
RUN NOW
ENDJOB

JOB RESET.JOBA TASK SELFCOMPLETING
RUN REF JOBA
ESPNOMSG RESDEF JOBA_DONE SET AVAIL(1)
AFTER ADD(JOBA)
ENDJOB


JOB B
RESOURCE ADD(1,JOBA_DONE)
RESOURCE ADD(1,JOBC_DONE)
RUN NOW
ENDJOB

JOB SET.JOBA TASK SELFCOMPLETING
RUN NOW
ESPNOMSG RESDEF JOBA_DONE SET AVAIL(0)
AFTER ADD(JOBB)
ENDJOB

JOB SET.JOBC TASK SELFCOMPLETING
RUN NOW
ESPNOMSG RESDEF JOBC_DONE SET AVAIL(0)
AFTER ADD(JOBB)
ENDJOB


APPL C

JOB C
RUN NOW
ENDJOB

JOB RESET.JOBC TASK SELFCOMPLETING
RUN REF JOBC
ESPNOMSG RESDEF JOBC_DONE SET AVAIL(1)
AFTER ADD(JOBC)
ENDJOB

[Legacy User]

Sherri,

That works great for me.

But, I still would like to know why are the depletable resources not working the way it is supposed to . I will raise a ticket with CA for that.

Thanks again, Sherri. Appreciate your help.

[Anon Anon]

You are welcome! :smile