Ca7 Introduction

CA-7  is a Production  control  system. It’s an online, real-time,  interactive  system  which Automatically controls, schedules jobs based on the Date and Time, job dependencies and Available resources.

CA-7  is our automated job scheduler. Jobs can be scheduled to run and manipulate in a             variety of ways . Two common terms that have caused confusion are “job triggering” and “job dependency”.

Job triggering  means a job’s  JCL is being pulled into the CA-7 queue for  execution.  If it has No other dependencies on it, it runs right away. But if there are other dependencies, it will wait for them to be satisfied. In other works, when a job is triggered, it doesn’t necessarily run right then

A job dependency is a job that must complete before the job waiting in the queue can run. Upon successful completion of the preceding job, the job waiting in the queue will be submitted. However, if the depende