"David Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi, > > I have a process that submits up to a couple of hundred jobs for > execution. I require that these jobs execute in the same order in > which they were submitted. > > For decades I have accomplished this by assigning all of the jobs to > a specific job class and then insuring that there was never more that > one initiator that had that job class assigned. > > I am now running at a new data center. (Guess where...) And I have > just discovered that my jobstream is running out of sequence. For > some reason, my single-threading initiator is selecting jobs from the > input queue out of sequence. > > Is there an "official" way to enforce job execution sequencing? > > TIA > > Dave Cole
This has been discussed extensively 1 or 2 years ago, search the archives for more information. IIRC there are several solutions, but there are at least as much reasons why they won't work reliably under all circumstances. The only reliable way is to have each job submit its successor. Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
