Using a RESOURCE Rule

[Elliott Fitzgerald]

Good morning CA community,
I have a question regarding using a RESOURCE rule.  I created a job in our test environment that is to wait until a started task is brought down. 

JOB JOBESTFF
RESOURCE (1,D10X0102)
RUN DAILY
DATASET 'ODTEEBF.JCL.CNTL'
ENDJOB

The JCL for this job is a simple IEFBR14 job so that I can test some functionality of certain features.  I noticed that even when the resource is up, the job still runs successfully.  I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but basically  I want the job only to run when the resource is down.  The resource is brought down manually by Operator intervention. 
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Rick Romanowski]

The statement RESOURCE (1,D10X0102) says that this job requires quantity 1 or resource D10X0102.

If the resource is available the job runs.

Is that RESOURCE used by any other job?

If not set Resource D10X0102 to 0 (NOT available)

Then reverse what Operators do and have them set Resource D10X0102 to 1 (Available)

Would that resolve your issue?

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Senior Systems Analyst
UPS
United States
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[Lucy Zhang]

Hi Elliott,

The ESP resource has no direct link to a STC. So if your STC name is D10X0102, then resource D10X0102 has no relationship with it.

Based on the requirement, the easiest solution is to define the STC as a MANUAL JOB, like:

JOB D10X0102 MANUAL

  RUN ANY

 REL ADD(JOBESTFF)

ENDJOB

Then JOB JOBESTFF will wait until D10X0102 ends.

Note: be sure that ESP will track this STC. 

Hope this helps,

Lucy