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z/OS-Data Set Trigger Jobs

You can define z/OS-Data Set Trigger jobs to create dependencies on data set activities. You can customize trigger conditions to define the circumstances in which the z/OS-Data Set Trigger job completes. After a z/OS-Data Set Trigger job completes, the server releases the successor jobs.

You can specify trigger conditions for the following data set activities:

• When a data set is created or updated
• When a specific job, group of jobs, or user ID creates a data set
• When an explicit data set notification is received (used when the data set activity does not generate an SMF record)
• When an FTP file is sent or received successfully

Note: Each data set must have its own individual Data Set Trigger job. To create dependencies on multiple data sets, you must create multiple Data Set Trigger jobs.

When specifying a data set, you can either specify the name of a single data set or use the hyphen wildcard to specify a group of data sets that match the selection criteria.

The following table shows how the hyphen wildcard matches a group of data sets: