At 5/23/2008 08:37 AM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
>This is where scheduling package comes into play to prevent such
incidents and tales of war stories describing such horrors. ;-D
That assumes Production Batch. I don't believe Dave's stuff is Production.
And, it's rare that non-Production is allowed to be managed by schedulers.
Ok, just FYI, here's my specific situation. My need is for
controlling the updates, assemblies and linkedits that I need to run
when regenerating z/XDC. (It has nothing to do with the installation
process at customer sites.)
My typical gen jobstream is:
* One update job.
* Followed by from 1 to 175 assemblies.
* Followed by one multi-step linkedit job.
The assemblies may run in any order, but none may run prior to the
update job, and they all must run one at a time, and all must run
before the linkedit job.
If assemblies abend or fail, I will still want to run the linkedit
job since any given assembly failure will affect only one linkedit
(out of the potentially 14 or so linkedits that might be in the linkedit job).
For this, I do not need a thruput manager.
The suggested solution of having each job submit its successor is not
ideal for me because of the possibility of the succession chain being
broken. (I do not want the gen to come to a screeching halt just
because an assembly or two failed or abend'd. [Yes, I do know how to
use COND=, but I also do not want to break the chain if I should
decide to cancel one or more assemblies prior to their running.])
So serializing via JES2 is, to me, the ideal solution. It's just a
shame that the IBM JES2 folks have allowed needless tradeoffs to
creep into the serialization setup process.
As I noted earlier, at my shop, specifying CNVTNUM=1 works just fine.
I do not run a MAS, and (as it happens) I don't use //JCLLIBs. (And
even if I did, I don't need or use archival/migration support.)
Obviously, what works for me would not work for many other shops.
I have an idea for how IBM could, rather easily, fix this issue. More
about that in my next post.
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