Considerations for event-triggered tracking

In some cases, a job is submitted from outside HCL Workload Automation for Z by using event-triggered tracking (ETT). When you set the ETT criteria for job-name replace tracking to YES, consider that:
  • You must add additional JCL to enable data set cleanup. To make a copy of the SYSOUT, which is then captured by the data store, add the following to the JESDS statement: 
    //TIVDSTST OUTPUT CLASS=*               
//TIVDST00 OUTPUT JESDS=ALL,DEST=OPCA   
//TIVDSTAL OUTPUT JESDS=ALL             
//TIVDSTUS OUTPUT DEST=OPCA

    The result provides a second output from the job taken from the data store to enable the jobs or steps to be restarted.

  • A job added using ETT, with job-name replace option set to YES, might produce a stand-alone cleanup job. In this case, the job-submit exit (EQQUX001) cannot affect the owner ID of the stand-alone cleanup job.

For more information about ETT, see Adding occurrences by event-triggered tracking.