Hi Rashmi, Following on from your recent post "I am planning to do it in an interactive way via a panel. Something which looks like this:
Here the user will be able to select the jobs which he needs to schedule by typing 'S' adjacent to the job. Here again, TSSE041 will be scheduled after the successful execution of TSSE011 and so on......if the user has typed 'S' adjacent to the 2 jobs. Also the output of TSSE011 is the input to TSSE041. " and linking to one of my own it induces me to make the following observation. The scheme you are proposing looks like it is intended for production use. If this is the case it reminds me of a system one of my people produced 20 years ago, using REXX and ISPF. No attempt was made to control job execution or linkage between jobs the functionality was split between. A User driven job selection vehicle (ISPF/REXX) which allowed both a choice of jobs, and data entry for their relevant control information. The results being stored as appropriate in libraries accessed via the REXX routines. Once the selection had been made, the REXX routine used an interface to the Job Scheduling package to indicate what the User schedule was. There were benefits all round in this situation. Customer perception was enhanced by the more reliable batch process delivered. Operations avoided accusations about running the wrong jobs with the wrong parameters. The auditors were happy because it met the requirement that all production work should be controlled via the Job Scheduler (CA-7 as it happens). We were happy because we didn't have to devise a synchronisation mechanism and hence were able to deliver a working solution in short order. In my view it would be worth establishing whether a Job Scheduling product is in use. If such a product is available talk to its support staff to determine how to interface you Panel/CLIST/REXX combination to it. The combination should deliver the most robust solution. Obviously if there is no Job Scheduling product then an alternative synchronisation method is required, but even here an investment in such a product may be more productive in the longer term. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk www.kmsitltd.co.uk Reg: England & Wales 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mails are scanned but it remains the recipients responsibility to ensure that their system is protected from viruses, trojans, worms, and spy-ware. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
