RE: Forcing batch jobs to run sequentially when batch is set up to run multiple jobs concurrently?

I agree with David, create a CL driver program. It also allows you to monitor for errors at each step. I would imagine that if one step fails, you do not want to run the others as it appears from your request, each job must run sequentially and not in parallel thus are dependent on each other completing normally.

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 9:44 AM
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Subject: Re: Forcing batch jobs to run sequentially when batch is set up to run multiple jobs concurrently?

On 5/16/2017 11:35 AM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

Is there an easy way, short of setting up a private batch job queue,
to force sequential execution?

Create a driver CL program that invokes each child program directly instead of submitting the jobs to the job queue.

IMO this is the easiest and most fool proof method.

david