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Patrick Bacelar
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We are having problems with the scheduler and until the problem is solved, we need to manually schedule several jobs and all of them need to change the MSGCLASS parameter from D to H and add the USER=XXXX.
Also, the jobs need to run in sequence.
Is it possible to do that?
Thanks in advance. |
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Willy Jensen
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Yow will need some program to modify the jobs. Are there a lot? Making them into ISPF skeletons might be a solution.
To have them run in sequence you can do
1. Submit job2 and onwards with TYPRUN=HOLD and add a step at the end of each job to issue a release command for the next in line.
2. JES2 job groups, see JES2 Execution Control Statements in the JCL reference manual (my recommendation). |
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pepeo_2k3
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| By writing a REXX code, you can generate a mass of jobs with the same ID to serialize them to be run in sequence and set the desired values to your parameters as well .... |
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Willy Jensen
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"with the same ID to serialize them to be run in sequence"
Not neccessarily true, JES2 now allows for duplicate jobnames. and execution sequence is not guaranteed to be in submission sequence. |
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pepeo_2k3
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| Not neccessarily true, JES2 now allows for duplicate jobnames |
You mean either using
in JES2 parameters, it doesn't work? Since this parameter is in the JES2 level this may not be the choice. |
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Willy Jensen
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| Yes that works, but if you submit a bunch of jobs with the same jobname I would not rely on them being started in jobid sequence. |
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enrico-sorichetti
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| Yes that works, but if you submit a bunch of jobs with the same jobname I would not rely on them being started in jobid sequence. |
even submitting jobs with different names does not guarantee the execution sequence
( see the jes2 manuals for the number of converter tasks ) |
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dneufarth
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| Perhaps a serial batch initiator (unique job class) exists in your system. |
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Willy Jensen
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| I can only, once more, recommend JES2 job groups. |
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enrico-sorichetti
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| Perhaps a serial batch initiator (unique job class) exists in your system. |
nope ...
with multiple converters the sequence of execution depends ON THE COMPLEXITY
of the job
a one step job will be converted be ready for execution much faster than a multi step complicated job |
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Pedro
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| Maybe add a step at the end of each job to submit the next job in the sequence. |
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Willy Jensen
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Pedros idea might be the simplest solution. For my suggestion 'Submit job2 and onwards with TYPRUN=HOLD and add a step at the end of each job to issue a release command for the next in line.' you can use REXX/SDSF to issue the release command:
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/* REXX */
cc=isfcalls('ON')
arg isfprefix . /* parameter = jobname */
isfowner ='*'
isffiltermode = 'AND'
isffilter = 'STATUS EQ HOLD'
Address SDSF "ISFEXEC ST"
if jname.0 =0 then do
say 'Job' isfprefix 'not found in hold q'
exit 8
end
say left(jname.1,8) left(jobid.1,8) left(queue.1,10) status.1
say '$AJ' jobid.1
Address SDSF "ISFSLASH'$AJ" substr(jobid.1,4) "'"
exit 0
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The RELEASE command can be protected in a way which does not open all console commands for the job. |
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Willy Jensen
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Just realized, the
Address SDSF "ISFSLASH'$AJ" substr(jobid.1,4) "'"
should really be
Address SDSF "ISFSLASH'$A"jobid.1"'"
as your jobid might not be in the form JOBxxxxx. |
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Pedro
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One of my patents was for a simple scheduler job. A rexx program that read a control file and submitted a list of jobs. It checked the jobs via SDSF rexx API and waited for each job to end with good return code before submitting the next job.
It worked well, but it takes two initiators.
update: actually, I wrote this before the existence of the SDSF rexx API. I used the SDSF batch interface and had so many problems that I was able to convince my colleagues at IBM to create the SDSF rexx API. |
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Patrick Bacelar
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| Thank you for the suggestions. Unfortunately, due to the limited time we had, everything was done manually. However, the information you provided will be useful in my studies. This will help me be better prepared for when this situation arises again. I am also enhancing my knowledge in REXX. |
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