How to track the job completion status in Rexx?

[mani05]

My requirement is to submit the job in REXX one by one sequentially . I want to submit the job only the successful completion of my previous job. My environment have IOF and job goes to SAR after completion. What is the efficient and standard way of doing it?

 

[Schlabb]

That's not a good idea having a REXX program waiting for a batch job to come to an end before continue processing. What would you do if your first job is delayed for whatever reason?

If you really need a sequence, then simply use your scheduler tool. Every shop has such a tool as Control M, OPC, TWS, or CA-7.

If you are not allowed to use it, you could convert your jobs to a single job with several steps. The conditional execution of these steps could then be defined by the parameter COND= of the EXEC statement.

Or you could simply add a final step to every job invoking IKJEFT01 using the SUBMIT command to fire the follow-up job. By clever use of the COND= parameter on this step you can cause a serialization of all of your jobs in a predefined sequence.

There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

 

[mani05]

Thanks for your help.