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Triggering Jobs

Some jobs must be scheduled after other jobs, regardless of what day those other jobs run. For example, assume that NAMEB has to run after NAMEA, regardless of whether NAMEA runs on Tuesday and Thursday or is rolled forward to Wednesday or Friday. CA WA CA 7 Edition lets you schedule NAMEA to trigger NAMEB. This triggering means that NAMEB is automatically scheduled whenever NAMEA ends successfully. Here is how to define this triggering:

  1. Enter DB.2 at the top of any screen to return to the Scheduling Menu.

    The Scheduling Menu is displayed.

  2. Enter 4 in the FUNCTION field to select job triggering.

When you press Enter, this screen is displayed:

 ---------------------------  CA-7 JOB TRIGGERING  ----------------------------
 FUNCTION:           (FORMAT,LIST,UPD)                               PAGE 0001
 JOB:
 OPT SCHID TRGD-JOB TRGID DOTM  QTM   LDTM  SBTM   *---- EXCEPTIONS ----*















 OPTIONS: A=ADD,D=DELETE,U=UPDATE,*=PROCESSED,?=ERROR
 PROGRAM: SM75   MSG-INDX: 00   -- DB.2.4   --   yy.ddd / hh:mm:ss
 MESSAGE: ENTER FUNCTION, TRANSFER OR ENTER A COMMAND ON THE TOP LINE

To trigger NAMEB from NAMEA, fill in the fields on this screen as follows:

FUNCTION:

Enter UPD (because you are updating the NAMEA record).

JOB:

Identify the job that runs first, in this case NAMEA.

OPT

Tab down to the line under the OPT heading and enter A to add the triggered job.

SCHID

Enter 1.

TRGD-JOB

Identify the job that is to run when NAMEA ends, in this case NAMEB.

QTM

Specify 30 to indicate that NAMEB is late when it has to wait more than 30 minutes before it starts processing. The due-out time of the job is calculated for you, based on this number.

LDTM

Assume that NAMEB also takes 30 minutes to process.

When these fields are filled in, press Enter and watch for the UPD FUNCTION SUCCESSFUL message at the bottom of the screen:

 ---------------------------  CA-7 JOB TRIGGERING  ----------------------------
 FUNCTION:           (FORMAT,LIST,UPD)                               PAGE 0001
 JOB:
 OPT SCHID TRGD-JOB TRGID DOTM  QTM   LDTM  SBTM   *---- EXCEPTIONS ----*
  *   001  NAMEB     000        0030  0030














 OPTIONS: A=ADD,D=DELETE,U=UPDATE,*=PROCESSED,?=ERROR
 PROGRAM: SM75   MSG-INDX: 00   -- DB.2.4   --   yy.ddd / hh:mm:ss
 MESSAGE: ENTER FUNCTION, TRANSFER OR ENTER A COMMAND ON THE TOP LINE

From now on, whenever NAMEA ends successfully, NAMEB is scheduled.