If you don't want to make the jobs submit each other and have no scheduling package, there is another alternative using UNIX tools (or windows).
We have perl packages to do FTP (although you could also do it in rexx). Using make (or gnumake), you can make each job dependent upon the other. The completion of each job would cause the next to be submitted (make rules can be written to turn a .jcl into a .list or something like that). ...chris. (25+ years (satisfied) user of XDC (nee DBC)) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Cole Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 10:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Controlling the execution sequence of dependant jobs in JES2 At 5/23/2008 08:25 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Fri, 23 May 2008 04:25:10 -0400, David Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >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 REPLY TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Cole Software WEB PAGE: http://www.colesoft.com > >736 Fox Hollow Road VOICE: 540-456-8536 > >Afton, VA 22920 FAX: 540-456-6658 > > > >Schedrun? :-) Nope. :-( Dave Cole REPLY TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cole Software WEB PAGE: http://www.colesoft.com 736 Fox Hollow Road VOICE: 540-456-8536 Afton, VA 22920 FAX: 540-456-6658 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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