Job running late or other notifications across lpars

[Elliott Fitzgerald]

Good morning all,
I currently have an application that consists of 3 jobs.  The first is located on our production LPAR after that completes and using the external scheduler it releases job#2 on the Tech1 LPAR.  After that job finishes it releases the 3rd and final job on the Production side. 
What I am trying to find out is if there is a practical way that if the 2nd job was running late on the Tech1 side, or its overdue if there is a way to notify the NOC team who only monitors the Production side of things?

[Rick Romanowski]

Does using an OVERDUE statement and a NOTIFY statement on Job 3 provide what you need?

 

DUEOUT EXEC <TIME>

NOTIFY OVERDUE USER(<USER>)       

NOTIFY OVERDUE ALERT(<ALERT>)         

 
If you use the second NOTIFY statement you will also need to create the ALERT.

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-mainframe-software/automation/ca-workload-automation-esp-edition/12-0/reference/statements/notify-statement-notify-users-or-consoles.html

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Senior Systems Analyst
UPS
United States
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[Dustin Neely]

If job 2 is the only dependency for Job three and this application runs pretty routinely, then you could use a latesub statement on job three.

 

One condition that needs to be steady state is that job three needs to have a pretty steady execution time meaning it kicks off say at 2 pm routinely. If this is the case and job 2 is the only dependency then the latesub statement would be simple to implement indicating that if job three is late then there is an issue with job 2.

 

I am making a few assumptions here, but this seems to be the simplest way to me.

 

 

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[Elliott Fitzgerald]

Thank you for the help and feedback, I will try both methods.  Job 2 does run at 6am everyday, and only runs for on average less than 1 minute so the latesub is a good solution as well. 

Last question (at least for now), say I have a job on the Tech1 LPAR that is not a predecessor to any jobs on the Production LPAR.  What method could I use to notify the NOC if the job runs into an issue on Tech1?

[Dustin Neely]

Not sure what notification systems are available to your NOC but assuming they have a Distribution list email you could setup and alert for the non monitored LPAR and have that alert send an email to that DL for the issues you define!

 

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