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[Deepthi]

I have a sequence of jobs to be scheduled which can run maximum 3 times a day.

For example -
if File A arrives, it shud kick off Job1 and a set of common jobs say grouped as COMJOB
if file B arrives, it shud kick off Job2 and COMJOB
if file C arrives, it shud kick off Job3 and COMJOB


If there is a file B, then Job2--> COMJOB shud wait for job1-->COMJOB to complete
If there is a file C, then Job3--> COMJOB shud wait for job2-->COMJOB to complete
i.e, File A, File B and File C cycles shud not run simultaneously.

On any given day, there can be just the file A or (File A and File B) or (File A and File B and File C).

Next day's cycle for file A shud not trigger until previous days cycles are complete. However, since its not sure that everyday we can have 3 cycles, we cannot have the dependency on the last job.

Can anyone suggest a good way of scheduling this requirement?

Scheduler is COntrol M.
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Thanks,
Deepthi.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

[kolusu]

Deepthi,

Create a single job which would validate the type of file received and it would kick of COMJOB. By doing this , it would ensure the cycle is completed before the new cycle kicks in.

Kolusu

[Dibakar]