Autosys box job dint kick off after it was set to IN from On Hold status.

[Legacy User]

 Autosys box job dint kick off after it was set to IN from On Hold status.This box runs every 30mins but on that day, it dint kick off and when we tried to use autrep -j jobname -d then we could see the even was not up for the next run. What could be the possible reason for box not kicking off even after it was in Inactive state?  Finally we had to force start the job and since then its running fine as per its schedule.I have read somewhere that its not advisable to change the status of job to any other state than OFF HOLD from an ON HOLD state.

Any insight on this issue would be helpful!

 

 

Thanks

Waseem Hasan

Autosys Prod Support Anlayst

[Steve Carrobis]

You untimed it. good job.

A timed job only knows when to run when inserted or after completion. It never completed.

Do an update_job on it.

With no other settings

It will recalc the next start. And never go on hold to in again

 

 

 

Steve C.

 

 

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[Legacy User]

Do you meant to say this is the normal behavior of Autosys? If yes then why other jobs which are in SU state will pick up its next run even we mark them to IN state. By doing update_job you meant i need to update the job with the same start_times so that it will recalculate the next start. Instead of that i can force start the job and then it will pick up its next run as we did with that particular job. 

Usually we mark any On hold job to Off hold states but sometimes user without knowing much about Autosys will request us to mark it to IN which happened in this case and was set to IN by one of my colleague and as result job dint pick up its next run.

[Reginold DAlmeida]

Hi Waseem,

 

The next start time of a job is calculated when a job completes. So it explains on why it works for a job which are in success or failure states. You just need to do an update_job <job_name> and it will recalculate the next start time of the job according to the job definition.

[Steve Carrobis]

Reg my ego is bruised. how is it your answer is correct? when i gave the same complete answer first?

 

:-p

[Shiva Krishna Kagga]

Hello Hasan,

 

Good Day!!

 

I echo with Steve Yes you untimed the job by marking job to inactive state, which should have been off-holded to run job immediately.

 

Please go through below document for more information

Starting Conditions - CA Workload Automation AE & Workload Control Center - CA Technologies Documentation 

 

Hope this helps!

 

Best Regards,

Shiva Krishna.K

[Legacy User]

Hello

 

I ran same scenario in my lab with a job having these starting conditions:

 

date_conditions: 1
days_of_week: all
start_mins: 0,10,20,30,40,50

 

sendevent -E JOB_ON_HOLD -J HP6

 autorep -J HP6 -d

Job Name Last Start Last End ST/Ex Run/Ntry Pri/Xit
________________________________________________________________ ____________________ ____________________ _____ ________ _______
HP6 ----- ----- OH 0/0

Status/[Event] Time Ntry ES ProcessTime Machine
-------------- --------------------- -- -- --------------------- ----------------------------------------
[JOB_ON_HOLD] 04/10/2017 02:52:41 0 PD 04/10/2017 02:52:42
[STARTJOB] 04/10/2017 03:00:00 0 UP
<Event was scheduled based on job definition.>

 

 sendevent -E CHANGE_STATUS -s INACTIVE -J HP6
 autorep -J HP6 -d

 

Job Name Last Start Last End ST/Ex Run/Ntry Pri/Xit
________________________________________________________________ ____________________ ____________________ _____ ________ _______
HP6 ----- ----- IN 0/0

Status/[Event] Time Ntry ES ProcessTime Machine
-------------- --------------------- -- -- --------------------- ----------------------------------------
[JOB_ON_HOLD] 04/10/2017 02:52:41 0 PD 04/10/2017 02:52:42
INACTIVE 04/10/2017 02:53:16 0 PD 04/10/2017 02:53:16
[STARTJOB] 04/10/2017 03:00:00 0 UP
<Event was scheduled based on job definition.>

 

At 3:00:00 it ran fine

===============

 

[04/10/2017 03:00:00] CAUAJM_I_40245 EVENT: STARTJOB JOB: HP6 TEXT: <Event was scheduled based on job definition.>
[04/10/2017 03:00:00] CAUAJM_I_40245 EVENT: CHANGE_STATUS STATUS: STARTING JOB: HP6 MACHINE: war6u2b1
[04/10/2017 03:00:00] CAUAJM_I_10082 [war6u2b1 connected for HP6 210127.700880.1]
[04/10/2017 03:00:01] CAUAJM_I_40245 EVENT: CHANGE_STATUS STATUS: RUNNING JOB: HP6 MACHINE: war6u2b1 TEXT: <Executing at WA_AGENT>
[04/10/2017 03:00:01] CAUAJM_I_40245 EVENT: CHANGE_STATUS STATUS: SUCCESS JOB: HP6 MACHINE: war6u2b1 EXITCODE: 0
[04/10/2017 03:01:00] ----------------------------------------

Job Name Last Start Last End ST/Ex Run/Ntry Pri/Xit

autorep -J HP6 -d

HP6 04/10/2017 03:00:00 04/10/2017 03:00:00 SU 700880/1 0

Status/[Event] Time Ntry ES ProcessTime Machine
-------------- --------------------- -- -- --------------------- ----------------------------------------
STARTING 04/10/2017 03:00:00 1 PD 04/10/2017 03:00:00 war6u2b1
RUNNING 04/10/2017 03:00:00 1 PD 04/10/2017 03:00:01 war6u2b1
<Executing at WA_AGENT>
SUCCESS 04/10/2017 03:00:00 1 PD 04/10/2017 03:00:01 war6u2b1
[STARTJOB] 04/10/2017 03:10:00 0 UP
<Event was scheduled based on job definition.>

 

I would suggest you try to replicate what the end users reported to you and then look into the different events with autorep -J <your job> -d

May be something else had been done for this specific run of this job

 

See also: Resetting a Job Flow with Time Conditions Through INACTIVE Status Change - CA Workload Automation AE & Workload Control … 

I would also recommend reading Basic Box Job Concepts - CA Workload Automation AE & Workload Control Center - CA Technologies Documentation 

It might have impacts on your Box status when you change an inner job to Inactive

 

Regards

Jean Paul