ESP - Is there any way to drop one dependency or a specific dependency?

[Jonathan Calloway]

Hello!

 

I have a requirement for dropping a single (or specific) dependency from a job at a specific time. Looking at ABANDON DEPENDENICES or the DROPDEP keyword of the APPLEJOB command, it seems that it is only possible to drop all dependencies and not specific ones.

 

Thanks!

 

Jonathan Calloway

IT Operations Support Analyst

Infrastructure and Operations

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[Lucy Zhang]

Hi Jonathan,

The AJ (APPLJOB) command allows you to specify the JOB name:

{APPLJOB|AJ} 
jobspec
....

    {DROPDEP[(fullname[,fullname]...)]}

Hope this helps,

Lucy

[Jonathan Calloway]

​Lucy,

Would you be willing to include an example?  I kept getting errors in simulation when I tried this.  I suspect I'm not getting the syntax correct.

Thanks!

<JC>

[Lucy Zhang]

Sure.

JOB SLEEP is waiting for WINNT01 in APPL AGENT23.6. I created an event:

EVENT ID(ESP.CPROC3) SYSTEM(-) REPLACE
Proc
ESP AJ SLEEP APPL(AGENT23.6) DROPDEP(WINNT01)
EndProc
ENDDEF

Note: the same command should work in ESP application too.

When it triggered, got following message:
ESP_2578I MESSAGE FROM EVENT ZHALI13.CPROC3
JOB SLEEP DEPENDENCIES DROPPED

APPLMGR: APPL AGENT23.6 JOB SLEEP READIED
APPLMGR: APPL AGENT23.6 JOB SLEEP PARTIAL DEPENDENCIES DROPPED BY ZHALI13
APPLMGR: APPL AGENT23.6 JOB SLEEP DEPENDENCIES DROPPED BY ZHALI13

Hope this helps,

Lucy

[Jonathan Calloway]

Lucy,

Sorry for taking so long to respond.  This worked perfectly!  Thank you so much!  This is yet another instance of the reason why you are an ESP CHAMPION!!!

<JC>​