I have several jobs than will run in sequence. It is possible to create a dependency between them only for completion, but not that the prior job has to complete successfully?
If a job fails this should remain red and go to the next job and continue running.
It is mandatory that this jobs to run in sequence and not in paralel.
As Mark outlined you can simply create an On-Do action within the parent job to add a condition when the job ends Not OK. The parent job will still go red and the successor job will kick off.
See below for an example:
yes, on the actions tab you create and On/Do step and say when Not OK the job should add the output condition. In this way the next job will run (in sequence) regardless of what happens to the predecessor job.
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I have a flow that needs to be trigger automatically on Tuesday every week.
In this, I have 4 jobs all dependent on each other.
JobA<-JobB<-JobC<-JobD
I have put all 4 jobs in one SMART folder.
Now I have scheduled this flow so that as soon as a job gets completed another job should trigger.
How can I achieve it.
Control-M has a design element called "Conditions" that defines the flowchart of a process mesh. These conditions determine the Jobs that are successors and predecessors through the Input and Output Conditions.
Keep in mind that a Condition in Control-M is a prerequisite for the execution of a Job and is composed of the following elements:
A Name,
A date
A sign
what all changes can we make in control-m job scheduling to minimize charges if we get charged on the basis of no of jobs ordered in a day in active schedule.
This is costing us a lot.
If some of your jobs are commands and share broad characteristics (nodeid, user, no alerts) then use conditional operators. E.g. linking commands with a semicolon will mean that each command is executed once. Linking with && will mean that the second command is only executed if the first runs successfully.
As Alex has mentioned, this is a broad area. And would be very difficult to anser to the point. But below are the few tips tht can be considered.
1. Check is the same script is being run by different jobs. This can be combined together by the help of scheduling tab.
2. File watcher jobs. If there is a requirement for checking the incoming file and then trigger a specific job for processign the file. [This makes up 2 jobs: Job1 - File watcher, Job2 - File Processing] This function can be achived by using AFT jobs. AFT jobs combine this two functions in one.
3. Low priority jobs, where alerting is not required, can be moved to unix/shell scripts if jobs are costly.
4. If Job2 is succeeding Job1, and Job2 is having only 1 IN CONDITION i.e from Job1, then rather than having two jobs, script (of Job2) can be called from the script (of Job1). So, ultimately we are doing two functions in Job1. Also, if the script (Job2) fails, then the Job1 will not get success return code. And you can get the details from log.
5. Keep the archiving functionality to the scripts and no need to bring it into the Control M jobs unless it is very important. And rather than doigni it every day for past 6 months, it would be better to schedule it once in a week or once in two weeks.
6. Sort the jobs in such a way that the regular jobs are in one table and the adhoc jobs (which is run only on request) into another. Keep the 'UserDaily' only for the jobs that are regular. Not keeping the 'UserDaily' for the jobs that are adhoc will not call these jobs in to the EM daily, and thus you see only those jobs that run daily and not the one that might or moght not run daily.
Hope this helps.
You can use ctmudly command to order only the user daily you want.
You can try using crontab in unix to schedule non-priority jobs which doesn't need manual intervention or observation.
You can avoid the FW jobs by including file checker logic in your Shell script which executes the actual process.
I am new to Autosys and facing difficulty setting up some jobs. I have a box job containg a few command jobs. One of those command jobs may or may not run. The problem is when this job doesn't run(it remains in activated state), it keeps the box running. I have to terminate this job or the box every time such situation arises.
Is there a way to handle this?
Thanks
The answer depends on how your jobs are supposed to work, so posting JIL or a more detailed description would help, but:
You can add a "box_success" JIL attribute on your box job to define conditions that will cause the box to complete even without all the jobs running or completing.
You could consider moving the optional job outside of the box so that this issue goes away. But consider that the box could then complete while the optional job is running so make sure that you don't then have jobs running out of sequence or overlapping when they shouldn't.
I have a box job that is dependent on another job finishing. The first job normally finishes by 11pm and my box job then kicks off and finishes in about 15 minutes. Occasionally, however, the job may not finish until much later. If it finishes later than 4am, I'd like to have it send an alert.
My admin told me that since it is dependent on a prior job, and not set to start at a specific time, it is not possible to set a time-based alert. Is this true? Does anybody have a workaround they can suggest? I'd rather not set the alert on the prior job (suggested by my admin) as that may not always catch those instances when my job runs longer.
Thanks!
You can set a max run alarm time which will alert if that time is exceeded
We ended up adding a job to the box with a start time of 4am that checks for the existence of the files the rest of the job creates. We also did this for the jobs predecessors to make sure we are notified if we are at risk of not finishing by 4am.
I submitting jobs to the batch process one after the other.
How do i control such that the second batch job runs only when the first one is finished.
Right now both the jobs executes simultaneously which i dont want to happen
There are two options. You can do this through code, or just via manual setup. Manual method is fairly easy, just go to (Basic>Inquiries>Batch Job), create a new batch job and save it. Then click "View Tasks" and create a new task, where this will be your first batch task. Choose your class, description, batch group, etc., then save. Click "parameters" to setup the parameters.
After that, you can setup your dependent task. Make sure your tasks both have descriptions. Add your second batch task and save. Then in the lower left corner, you click on your task that you want to have a condition, then add a row there and setup your conditions so that one task won't go until the second has completed.
Via X++ code, you would create a BatchHeader where you setup basically the same thing we just did manually. You use the .addDependency to make one task dependent on the completion of the other. This walkthrough will get you started with a job to create the batch header, and you'll just have to play around to get the dependency working.