ESP Workload Automation

We currently have a job that is defined with an hourly offset to run a few times a day.  The template if defined within an appl.

TEMPLATE HOURLY (1,OFFSET)                      
/*** THESE JOBS WILL RUN EVERY 2 HOURS FROM 0600
JOB IMGDLY01.%offset                            
  DELAYSUB 0800AM PLUS %OFFSET HOURS             
     RUN WORKDAYS                                  
 ENDJOB     

ENDTEMPL      
HOURLY 00     
HOURLY 02     
HOURLY 04     
HOURLY 06     
HOURLY 08     

The Programmer now wants this job to run every 30 minutes instead of 2 hours.  I tried using minutes in place of HOURS and HOURLY but that did not work.

Does anyone know if a template can be set within an appl to run in smaller increments than an hour?

If so,  can you point me to where I can find how to code this?

Otherwise, I'm thinking I will need to pull this job from the appl and put it in an appl of its own with the event running every 30 minutes and using a Suspend and Resume time.

Thanks in advance for your help - it is appreciated!

You could use some REXX code to do the math and set a variable like this:

TEMPLATE EO990W01_WRKDAYS (1,OFFSET_WRKDAYS)  
 NT_JOB EO990W01.%OFFSET_WRKDAYS               
   . . .
   DELAYSUB 00:15 PLUS %OFFSET_WRKDAYS MINUTES
   RUN WORKDAYS                               
 ENDJOB                                       
ENDTEMPL                                      
                                              
REXXON                                        
 DO I=0 TO 1410 BY 30                         
  "EO990W01_WRKDAYS "I                        
 END                                          
REXXOFF                                       

This one runs the job every 30 minutes.  You could figure the math differently if you need it to run every minute.  You could also considuer using the REEXEC statement in a task, like this:

JOB EO900W01.INSERT TASK                                    
 RUN WORKDAYS                                               
 RUN SAT                                                     
 TIME='%ESPAHH%ESPAMN%ESPASS'                               
   ESP APPLINS APPL(%ESPAPPL..%ESPAPGEN) STATEMENTS -       
   ('NT_JOB EO900W01.%TIME; -                               
      AGENT WEPSDP01; -                                     
      CMDNAME \\wepsdp01\epsd\ecms\EO900W01.bat; -          
      EXITCODE 222 SUCCESS; -                               
      EXITCODE 1 SUCCESS; -                                 
     ENDJOB')                                               
   REEXEC AT('REALNOW PLUS 60 SECONDS')                     
  ENDDO         

Hope this helps!                                            

I am sure Jonathan's solution will also work.  To keep with the TEMPLATE strategy, try the one below. 

TEMPLATE MINUTES (1,OFFSET)
/*** THESE JOBS WILL RUN EVERY 30 MINUTES FROM 0800
JOB IMGDLY01.%OFFSET
DELAYSUB 0800AM PLUS %OFFSET MINUTES
RUN WORKDAYS
ENDJOB
ENDTEMPL
MINUTES 0
MINUTES 30
MINUTES 60
MINUTES 90
MINUTES 120
MINUTES 150

2¢

Don

Many thanks for your help - it is appreciated!!!!

Hi Barb,

As you may not know, ESP community has been moved to:

CA Mainframe Workload Automation 

And this post will be move to the new place.

Thank you,

Lucy