Using the DCL Command Interface › Creating Job Dependencies

Creating Job Dependencies

You can specify job dependencies for a job when you create, copy, or modify a Job Management Manager job. Job dependencies are other jobs that must complete successfully before the current job can run. You can specify up to 16 job dependencies for a job.

To specify job dependencies, use the /SYNCHRONIZATION qualifier with the SCHEDULE CREATE, SCHEDULE COPY, or SCHEDULE MODIFY command. You can specify a job dependency by its job name or job number in the Job Management Manager job database. To specify more than one job dependency, enclose the list in parentheses and separate the dependencies with commas.

Example:

SCHEDULE> MODIFY COPY_IT /SYNCH=(BACKUP,XYZ::RENAME_IT=DOE,XYZ::6)

This command modifies a job named COPY_IT to depend on three other jobs:

• Your own job BACKUP, in your local OpenVMS Cluster
• A job RENAME_IT, owned by user DOE in the OpenVMS Cluster that contains node XYZ
• Job 6 in the OpenVMS Cluster that contains node XYZ