I think many of you might be already aware of this. Below are different types on how a job can be run by creating necessary settings in CA7/AUTOSYS.
- Demanded Manually
- Scheduled to run at specific time
- Triggered as soon as another job is complete
- Triggered as soon as a mainframe dataset is created (from its predecessor job)
- Triggered as soon as a File (Excel/CSV/Fixed Format) is available at a specific network location
We are going to talk about option 5 where when a job is triggered as soon as a file is placed at a location. This is helpful in scenarios where you have business users wanting you to run a specific job based on the same format input (different data though) multiple times across a day/week/month. Instead of doing manual steps like FTP dataset, run job, send report to business.
You can automate this by asking business users to place the latest file in a specific network folder and create a new triggered job (and job settings in AUTOSYS) which triggers the job as soon as a new file is placed.
Job steps can be
- To read the file
- Format it
- Process it
- Send out an email with required report/details
- Finally delete the input file
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