Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

6.1 Commonly Asked Questions
6.1.4.3 Summary
For jobs in the tracking file:
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Use RERUN or SUBMIT for jobs that ended abnormally or were canceled.
Use FORCE to submit jobs if you are willing to violate their reasons for
waiting.
Use requested or SREQ for requested jobs.
For jobs not on the tracking file:
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Use ADD to put a job on the tracking file if it does not exist on the
database or if it is on the database, but you need to change its keywords.
Use RUN to submit jobs in the database if you do not need to change their
keywords.
6.1.4.4 When Is the PRED Flag Reset?
When you use the PRED keyword in the criteria language, it indicates that the
schedule or job is to wait for a predecessor to complete. When you do not use
the keyword PRED, the predecessor is to complete within the autoscan day.
When you specify PRED in front of the predecessor, it means the predecessor
was to have completed since the last time this schedule or job was run. There
is an exception, however. If the PRED is a schedule or job that is in today's
workload, it will wait for that specific one to complete. For example, if a job
has a predecessor of PRED DSN JOBA.MASTER, the output data set
JOBA.MASTER must have been closed at least once between each running of
that job. If the job is run weekly, then it must have been closed at least once
during the last week.
Normally in the selection process (during autoscan), job names cause selection
if the predecessor job was selected. When PRED precedes a schedule name or
job name, it is not used in determining selection, but is a predecessor condition
only. All other criteria rules still apply.
6.1.4.5 What Happens If There Was a System Crash?
The following discussion is appropriate to a system crash or if Unicenter
CA-Scheduler does not complete normally.
Unicenter CA-Scheduler is able to recognize whether a clean shutdown
occurred. When a clean shutdown did not occur, upon starting back up,
Unicenter CA-Scheduler does the following based on the status of the job at
the point Unicenter CA-Scheduler was last active:
Status At Failure
STARTED
Sets New Status To
UNKNOWN - The job may have to be rerun, but
requires investigation by a troubleshooter.
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