CA7 scheduling/triggering a weird situation

[RenateLynn Edwards]

I just got this from the programmers.   Any ideas on the best way to schedule?   

 

we get a file from the fed that will run.   I will trigger QAPPDAMJ off of that job.  It will only run 4 times a day.

 

QAPPDAMJ ---- this JOB will run 4 times a day

              
After the 4^th  GOOD EOJ of QAPPDAMJ, please execute: QAPPDAMC

 

thanks

renate

 

 

[Marysue]

The only thing I can think of would require writing a program that does LRLOG,JOB=QAPPDAMJ that is triggered by QAPPDAMJ and in that program you can 'look' to see how many times it has executed and send a special return code--having an ARFSET that is executing a DEMAND of QAPPDAMC if the the return code says to.  Question here is how many times will the data set be created?  Do you know?  What happens if a 6th or 7th or 8th run of the job happens?

[Marysue]

Of course, you should never use ARF on a good completion so you would also have to set the return code as failing on the DB.1 and then force complete.

[RenateLynn Edwards]

My solution was to schedule a job at a certain time when the last job ran.   Should work but isn't elegant.

 

renate