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[mainframebeginner]

Hi ,

There are Auto-submission steps in my job ... i mean if i submit one job after the successful execution of that job it will submit one more job without manual intervention. ( i hope it is clear)

My requirement is .. i have trigger my first job .. after the succesful execution of first job after an hour the second job should trigger......there should be 1hour gap between two jobs...

Is it possible to write a JCL like this?

Appreciate all your help!!

Thanks.

[superk]

Anything's possible, but how will your data center feel about your job just sitting there, burning CPU cycles and tying up an initiator, for an hour, without doing anything?

[mainframebeginner]

Yes, i agree with you. but this is my requirement.

We are trying to automate the job execution without any manual intervention. just trigger one job rest will take care of itself. everything is done but struck up here with the above query.

Can you please help?

[semigeezer]

Some ideas:

• Use a real job scheduler (preferred)
  
• Look at $TA command in JES (and don't forget how to cancel the requests!)
  
• Write small program that sleeps (not spins) and run as ajob with a special initiator class just for you
  
• Write small program that sleeps (not spins) and run as a started task
  
• Use cron
  
• Submit jobs via ftp from automated task scheduler or similar from an external Windows or Unix box
  
• probably others...
  

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[superk]

You'll find my recommendation in this previous topic.

[papadi]

[Anuj Dhawan]

is it really a requitrement to be implemented in "production" or something to do with automation in test environment?
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Anuj