Releasing a Job based on Predecessor Job Specific Step completion

[deepaklk]

I have coded as below. JOB B should run immediately once STEP4 in JOBA is completed successfully, but JOB B is getting kicked off only entire steps in JOB A is done.

JOB JOBB

  RUN WORKDAYS

  AFTER ADD(JOBA) COND(STEPRC('-.STEP4',0))

ENDJOB

Just wondering whether STEPRC Condition should be in RELEASE ADD Statement under JOBA definition will work or is there some other condition in place to kick off the job B immediately once Specific Step in Predecessor job JOBA is done. Please Advise

[Lucy Zhang]

HI Deepak,

The AFTER will take effect only after JOBA finishes. It's meant for JOB level relationship.

If you want JOBB runs right after STEP4 in JOBA completes, you can:

- Use STEPEND monitoring: Having JOBA being tracked by a tracking model with STEPENDEVENT defined

DEFTM TRAKSTEP .... STEPENDEVENT(ESP.STEP_MON)

And in event ESP.STEP_MON, check if it's STEP4 and if RC=0, If both are good, then issue AJ command to remove the dependency to JOBA, like:

ESPNOMSG AJ JOBB DROPDEP(JOBA)

See following for more details:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-mainframe-software/automation/ca-workload-automation-esp-edition/12-0/advanced-using/trigger-events-through-job-monitoring-and-alert-processing.html

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-mainframe-software/automation/ca-workload-automation-esp-edition/12-0/reference/commands/appljob-aj-command-control-jobs-and-subapplications.html

- Use RESOURCE and STEPEND, like below:

Note: presume XXX is a renewable resource with MAX(1)

JOB JOBB

RESOURCE ADD(1,XXX)

...

ENDJOB

JOB JOBA 

PRIORITY 50

RESOURCE ADD(1,XXX)

STEPEND STEPNAME(STEP4) RELRES(1,XXX)

...

ENDJOB

As you can see, the AFTER is replaced by the STEPEND statement. and to make sure JOBA gets the resource first, add PRIORITY 50 to give it higher priority.

Hope this helps,

Lucy