Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

5.1 Criteria Vocabulary
Example
SCD SCHD1
DOS TSTJOB1
PRED DSN
PROD.JOB1DSN
Interpretation Of Predecessors
Do not run until all of the jobs in the schedule
SCHD1 have completed.
Do not run until after the nonscheduled VSE job
TSTJOB1 completes. (The job TSTJOB1 is not under
the control of Unicenter CA-Scheduler.)
Do not run until after the output data set
PROD.JOB1DSN has been closed at least once since
this job was last run.
5.1.4 Combining Selection and Predecessor Criteria Vocabulary
Previously, selection and predecessor processing have been treated as separate
issues. They really are related, however.
For example, the selection criteria for JOBB is JOBA. That is, JOBB is selected
any time that JOBA is selected. In doing this, JOBA automatically becomes a
predecessor to JOBB. Thus, JOBA is an explicit predecessor to JOBB. That is,
the predecessor name is explicitly stated in the criteria. This particular type
can even be further qualified as a selection-defined explicit predecessor.
Selection-defined explicit predecessors are jobs or schedules used in the
selection criteria. The following is a list of these criteria:
Job name
SCD schedule name
START job name
START SCD schedule name
Some examples that define selection and predecessor criteria for JOBC follow.
Example
JOBA
START JOBA
MON AND JOBA
WED AND START SCD SCHD1
Interpretation Of Criteria
Select every time JOBA is selected and
make the successful completion of JOBA
a predecessor of JOBC.
Select every time JOBA is selected and
make the start of JOBA a predecessor of
JOBC.
Select every time JOBA is selected on a
Monday. JOBC will not start until JOBA
completes successfully.
Select every time schedule SCHD1 is
selected on a Wednesday. JOBC will not
start until schedule SCHD1 starts.
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