ESP: How to control run criteria at the applciation level

[Jonathan Calloway]

I have been laboring under a delusion for awhile that it is possible to control job run criteria at the application level  What I am looking for is a faster way to do this then having to modify every job.

 

For example, a user requests that an application not run on a specific day.  Each job in this application are coded to RUN DAILY.  Usually we add a line to each job in the application like this:  NORUN <date> or maybe a line that sets the job attribute to REQUEST.

 

What I am asking is, there a way to do this at the application level?

 

Thanks!

[Lucy Zhang]

Hi Jonathan,

 

You can add below before the APPL statement:

IF TODAY('specific_date') THEN EXIT

 

Then the application won't even be created and no job will run.

 

You may also add NOSCHED on event level, so that the event won't fire on the date.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Lucy

[powdo03]

Hi Jonathan, 

 

It would be possible to code a variable at the top of the appl. Put the date in when you don't want it to run.  

APPL TEMPLATE
BADDAY = 'DEC 28 2016'

JOB DPTST001.E CRITICAL
    RUN ANY
    NORUN %BADDAY
ENDJOB

 

A different way to handle this would be to put the NORUN BADDAY statement into each job and then add a BADDAY special day to the calendar when it does not need to run. Then it can be turned off easily. 

 

2¢

[Legacy User]

Prior to the appl actually building, 2 ways of the top of my head.

 

Change the run daily to run %run

Set run=daily at the top of the appl.

Use if today logic to set run=norun any   

 

We played with variations of this:

APPLSTART JSTANAME                                      
 NORUN ANY                                              
  IF TODAY('07 JUN,2016') THEN                          
  DO                                                    
   RUN DAILY                                            
/* EARLYSUB 03:00 */                                    
   DELAYSUB NOW PLUS 05 MINUTES                         
/* JOBATTR HOLD */                                      
/* ESPNOMSG AJ ALL COMPLETE APPL(%ESPAPPL..%ESPAPGEN) */
  ENDDO                                                 
ENDJOB                                                 

 

The post complete of the appl does function within the applstart.

 

HTH....don t./wag.....