Hello all
I have a need to run a couple of batch jobstreams at the same time every
day.
The streams are fully developed and they run happily at the required
time(s), under control of a couple of JES 'TA' automatic commands:
£ T A0001,I=86400,T=00.05,'£VS,''S JOB,N=DLYWORK1'''
£ T A0002,I=86400,T=00.10,'£VS,''S JOB,N=DLYWORK2'''
('JOB' is an IEBGENER that copies files to the internal reader)
The trouble with that solution is that TA commands are obeyed both at the
prescribed times AND at IPL (or JES start?) time.
Given that I'm currently working on commissioning a new production
system, IPLs are still fairly frequent, and so the timed jobstreams keep
resulting in 'unexpected' results.
There isn't any cash in the kitty for something like OPC (now Tivoli?) or
CA-7, and I've been unable to track down any 'freeware' batch job scheduler
(though I'd be happy to be shown the error of my ways on that), so I
decided to try using cron instead.
Is anybody using cron in this way? Is there anything I should beware of?
Sean
.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
