Checking for files on z/OS
The
existence of a file can be used as a job dependency in HCL Workload Automation.
To check for the existence of a file on z/OS, HCL Workload Automation passes
the file name to the Gateway. The file name is allocated with DISP=OLD,
and is considered to exist if the following conditions apply:
- The data is cataloged
- It is allocated
- It is not being used by another task
If the data set does not exist, HCL Workload Automation continues
to wait and check for the file at a frequency determined by the bm
check file option in the localopts file
of the fault-tolerant workstation that
is hosting the extended agent. The localopts options are described
in the Planning and Installation Guide.
Note: HCL Workload Automation can
only use fully qualified data set names for non-partitioned files.
If a Generation Data Group name is to be used, it must be the fully
qualified name and not a relative name (for example, xxxxx.xxxxx(-1)
cannot be used).