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Schedule help needed.

Post by jstarkw » 07 Feb 2014 6:24

I have a job-A that schedules on every Thursday. It is in the middle of a 3 day production stream. job-A cannot run until afte 8:00pm on Friday. I cannot use the time setting of 8:00pm because the predecessor job may not run until early Saturday morning. This will cause job-A to wait until 8:00pm on Saturday. I cannot use the > than symbol because the predessor job can also finish before 8:00pm on Friday and job-A will then start before 8:00pm. job-A cannot run standalone as it is dependent upon the predessor finishing and is the dependency for the next job. is there an advanced scheduling option to resolve this?

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Post by jstarkw » 07 Feb 2014 7:30

P.S. Forgot to mention I am using control-m version 8.0.00.200 EM. installed on Redhat Linux.

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Post by ryanS27 » 07 Feb 2014 9:34

You can force order the job A from its predecessor's job step tab.

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Post by jstarkw » 07 Feb 2014 9:58

Hi Ryan,

I thought of this but the challenge here is that there are a lot of successor jobs. I am not a big fan of force order because if someone orders the scheduling table ignoring schedulng criteria, it will order the job that is supposed to get force ordered. Then you get another copy of this job ordered when you get past the force order predecessor.

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Post by steve_r » 14 Feb 2014 11:31

You can create a trigger job which runs at 08:00 on Friday which just provides an 'in' condition for Job-A. If Job-A is dependent on the trigger job AND the predecessor job, it will either run at 08:00 on the Friday if the predecessor job has completed OR it will run as soon as the predecessor has completed.

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