Thanks for your reply Jim
I did think about data queues but I did not know how to address this particular situation
Here is my predicament
17 jobs will be submitted
Each of these 17 jobs are independent from each other and could finish in any particular order
However, the 18th job is dependent on ALL of the 17 jobs finishing successfully
Alan Shore
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 9:49 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: How do you determine when numerous SBMJOBs have ALL finished
Assuming you do not have the advanced job scheduler so you cannot just put a dependent job on the schedule, how about using a data queue rather than the data area? Each job enques an entry as its first action and a second entry as its last. The next job checks the queue with a non destructive read to be sure its ready to run. That will leave you a nice history, and queues are faster and, in my view, an easier thing to
manage. Your last job just needs to sit on a Dequeue wait on a keyed
queue until the proper entry appears. More efficient than the data area check every so often.
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects
On 9/12/2011 8:36 AM, Alan Shore wrote:
Good morning all
I have one job that submits numerous (a lot) of submit jobs Once ALL
of them have finished SUCCESSFULLY, I need to submit another one
(let's call it PROGRAMLAST) I was just wondering if anyone else is doing or has done the same thing, what process was used.
I am toying with the idea of using a data area and within each SBMJOB
adding 1 to this data area and checking for a particular value in the
PROGRAMLAST program This would mean that PROGRAMLAST would need to be
always submitted, but waiting for a value to appear in the data area
Alan Shore
Programmer/Analyst, Direct Response
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C:(631) 880-8640
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