NetBatch Manual

Job Planning, Submission, and Management
NetBatch Manual—522460-004
4-4
Planning Procedure
Figure 4-2 shows the job names assigned to the programs from the previous figure and
the dependencies between those programs.
Step 4: Establish Recovery Strategies
Establish a job-recovery strategy for use when a job fails. Consider such things as:
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Each job’s importance
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The degree of automation required in the recovery process
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Each job’s ability to restart itself
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How long each job takes to run
The recovery strategy is implemented when writing the jobs’ programs, creating their
input files, and assigning their IFFAILS, RESTART, STALL, and STOP-ON-ABEND
Figure 4-2. Sample Job Dependencies Diagram
C
Database
update program
Job name: TLOG-C
Waits on: TLOG-A
Releases: TLOG-E,
TLOG-F
Daily trans-
action report
program
D
Job name: TLOG-D
Waits on: TLOG-A
Releases: TLOG-G
Daily
backup
program
B
Job name: TLOG-B
Waits on: TLOG-A
Releases: TLOG-G
Monthly
exec. report
program
F
Job name: TLOG-F
Waits on: TLOG-C
Releases: N.A.
Daily
exec. report
program
E
Job name: TLOG-E
Waits on: TLOG-C
Releases: TLOG-G
Cleanup
program
G
Job name: TLOG-G
Waits on: TLOG-B,
TLOG-D, TLOG-E
Releases: N.A.
Log
processing
program
Job name: TLOG-A
Waits on: N.A.
Releases: TLOG-B,
TLOG-C, TLOG-D
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