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[Abhi]

I am trying to set up a utility that will submit jobs in a sequence dynamically to JES. The strategy that I have adopted is -

- I have put all the jobs that I need to submit in one PDS.

- I have a VSAM file with a 8 byte jobname (PDS member name) field as the key and the data area is an array with a list of jobs that need to be triggered once this job (as in the key) gets completed successfully.

- I have coded a proc which has a program and an IDCAMS step. I have added this proc to the end of all jobs in my PDS and this proc receives a parameter i.e. the jobname (PDS membername) which is calling it.

- The program receives this parameter passed to the proc, looks up the VSAM file and creates a REPRO card in the following format and passes it to the next IDCAMS step.

[warp5]

A quick solution would be to submit an Idcams step for each repro, that should solve your problem.

[RobertL]

Hi,
As warp5 said, you should probably submit the IDCAMS JCL as a separate job, but the it should specify the name of the JCL member in a DD statement instead of in the INDATASET parm as shown below. Using INDATASET requires exclusive access to the referenced dataset (why, I don't know. Maybe to ensure the integrity of backups). Using a DD statement and INFILE gets around this issue.

Hope this helps.
Regards,
Robert

[kolusu]

Abhi,

I would use IKJEFT01 for submitting the jobs.with IDCAMS repro you are copying the jobs once again. You can avoid the copy step by using the SUBMIT command with IKJEFT01

[Abhi]

Thank u Kolusu, IKJEFT01 looks like the best option.

Robert, Warp, I can not use multiple IDCAMS step because at any point of time I wouldn't be able to determine how many jobs need to be submitted.

[tejnp]

[kolusu]

Tejnp,

If you want to run the jobs in sequence then have the submit of job trigname2 in trigname1 as last step.

ex: trigname1 job.

[saro]

Hi Kolusu,

Iam new to this group.
this is my first post.
my question is related to this topic only.submitting job thro another job.

1)I want to submit a series of jobs which i would like to submit directly from Panvalet and not from PDS.is it possible ?

and if so

2) i have a schedule(the sequence in which i have to execute).how to acheive running the jobs in the same sequence.

3) and if at all any jobs abend or if i want to stop the chain in midway how do i do it.


Kindly answer
Thanks
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[Cogito-Ergo-Sum]

saro,
Your requirements are more suited for already commercially available softwares called job schedulers. You are trying to re-invent the wheel. Of course, I do not know the complete background of your problem. Nevertheless, a job scheduler is what you are really looking for.
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[kolusu]

[saro]

Cogito and kolusu,

As u said my requirement was more or less a scheduler only.but we are not previlleged use CA7 for testing jobs.it could be used only for production jobs in our project.


my problem is, i have 190 jobs to test,for which i know the flow and the test job
setup is ready.what i expected is to modify your post according to my requirement,

//LASTSTEP EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01
//SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSIN DD *
SUB 'MY.JOB.PDS(TRIGNAME2)'
/*

in such a way to submit the flow in one strike.sit and watch..
and Kolusu,i didnt want to include this utility in each job to trigger the next coz these are gonna be reviewed by clients(to match exactly the production jobs).

Anyways Thanks for your response.
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[kolusu]

[saro]

Thats fine kolusu,
i just wanted to know if any kind of automation is possible.
i'll try to do it in someway and let you know.but your post with IKJEFT01
was really helpfull in carrying out atleast 80 jobs .

Thanks for your efforts.
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