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Tough JCL question need answered

Postby poloman » Tue Nov 20, 2018 2:09 am

Scenario:

You have an online application without MQ and DB2 and it updates a VSAM file, and you also have a Batch job that updates this file.

Questions:

How to make sure job runs 24 hours.
How to make sure that both these files are synced
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Re: Tough JCL question need answered

Postby enrico-sorichetti » Tue Nov 20, 2018 3:08 am

the question as asked does not make any sense ...

How to make sure job runs 24 hours.

which job are You referring to ?

if the online and the batch update the same file

How to make sure that both these files are synced

why two files ?

if You want good answers learn how to post clear questions :mrgreen:

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Re: Tough JCL question need answered

Postby expat » Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:37 pm

I can only see reference to ONE dataset, where is the second one ???
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Re: Tough JCL question need answered

Postby Terry Heinze » Tue Nov 20, 2018 8:37 pm

How to make sure that both these files are synced
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Re: Tough JCL question need answered

Postby poloman » Wed Nov 21, 2018 1:34 am

Sorry that is a confusing question I posted. But is it possible to run a batch job for 24 hours.
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Re: Tough JCL question need answered

Postby Akatsukami » Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:05 am

Yes, but probably not through use of the TIME parameter.
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Re: Tough JCL question need answered

Postby NicC » Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:43 am

Easy - just put an infinite loop into one of the programs being executed. But you would need a very good reason to do so because you will be taking up resources that could be used by other jobs.
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Re: Tough JCL question need answered

Postby steve-myers » Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:53 am

As NicC says, it is not difficult at all.

As I write this, I have a job that started November 5 at 1 PM. It does things at specified times: 23:55:00 and 23:59:45. The remainder of the time it's waiting on the clock. So far it has used 3.23 seconds CPU.

I have another job, a started task, started September 10 at 10:46. Once an hour, on the hour, it writes a message to the operator console,

Code: Select all

SHH001I IT IS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 (18.253) 10:46:54
SHH001I IT IS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 (18.253) 11:00:00


The first message was written when it started,

Its intended audience is an analyst examining the SYSLOG.

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Re: Tough JCL question need answered

Postby Garry F Carroll » Wed Nov 21, 2018 2:26 pm

I don't see the relevance of NOT having MQ or DB2? There are probably a lot of other products not involved.

I suspect you're asking about maintaining data integrity in the one VSAM dataset, not two datasets? If so, use of the correct VSAM shareoptions together with an ENQ/DEQ mechanism used by the updating applications would be an approach. See https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... 0/crso.htm

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Re: Tough JCL question need answered

Postby poloman » Thu Nov 29, 2018 2:53 am

Thank you everyone for the excellent answers!
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