Re: AJS (Advance Job Scheduler) issue

I'll be the one to disagree.
AJS's job is to submit on a schedule and monitor completion.
Included in that scheduling is what to do if system unavailable (options to submit upon resumption or not).
It's my choice to put the jobq on hold, for whatever reason.
We have many jobs that run repeatedly during the day & eve.

Why should AJS make it's own decision (by design) not to submit, when the scheduler is running and the time arrives?
It has no application knowledge to know if that is a good idea or not.

To me, it's a design flaw.

Jim Franz

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Subject: Re: AJS (Advance Job Scheduler) issue

I don't even use AJS but I tend to agree with them on this one.
Why would you want to queue up multiple jobs?
Let's suppose the job queue was on hold and not just this one job. Would
you expect that to stop it from queing up more?
I'm hoping someone held that job for a reason. Why should they have to
keep holding more and more? Suppose your AJS entry submitted it every 5
minutes? Might drive a lad bonkers holding them.
IBM clearly put on the entry "Dude, I'm not submitting this job anymore
until the other one is released from the job queue."



Rob Berendt
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From: "Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 05/21/2014 01:21 PM
Subject: AJS (Advance Job Scheduler) issue
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Did you know, that if a job submitted from AJS, is put on hold in the jobq
before it becomes active, AJS will not submit any future jobs for this
job.
AJS job status is *JOBQ as opposed to normal *READY status.
Held job in jobq needed to be cancelled before any new jobs could be
submitted.

I did not expect this behavior, but WAD per IBM development..
I think I will be submitting a DCR request, scheduled job still should
run.

Any thoughts from the group?

Thank You
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