Step5 should run only on Friday

mkk157 · Active User Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 252

Dear Experts,

I have a Job with 5 steps in it. This job runs every business day.
A GDG contains 5 generations.
First 4 steps of the job creates a new generation of the GDG every day.

My requirement is:
Step5 of the job concatenates all the 5 generations of GDG, and creates a new PS file, this step should run only on every friday.

i.e. To summarize,
Job should run every day (5 times a week)
Steps 1 to 4 should run every day (5 times a week)
Step 5 should run only on friday ( one time a week)

How to write the STEP5. Please advise ?

superk

What is going to determine it it's Friday? Is this something that you expect your job scheduling system to handle?

For me, when it's a non-scheduled job, I use EZACFSM1 to provide the value of the system variable for DAY, and then SORT to check the value (i.e. 1,3,CH,EQ,C'FRI') and set the return-code as needed.

mkk157 · Active User Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 252

Hi Superk,

That's was the puzzle for me.

expat · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:43 pm Post subject:

Why not have the concatenation job as a seperate job that only processes on the last working day of the week, or on Friday if Friday is the must day.

Alternatively talk to your scheduling people to see what functionality exists within the scheduling software.

arvind.m · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:41 am Post subject:

In out shop this is done thru scheduling....something like shown below

gcicchet · Senior Member Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 1198

Hi,

Chirantan Banerjee

superk, can you please elaborate on EZACFSM1 ?

superk

The EZACFSM1 program is part of TCP/IP. It is known as the "symbol translator utility". EZACFSM1 reads an input file and writes to an output file, translating any symbols in the process.

See reference here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1B350/1.2.9.1?SHELF=AP0ABK19&DT=20050708113621

The symbols it translates are the MVS built-in dynamic system symbols. A basic set is provided by IBM, and others can be created by your MVS systems programmers. You can check here for the list of standard dynamic system variables: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA1E241/2.2.2

Chirantan Banerjee · Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:46 pm Post subject:

Thanks Kevin.