General Information for ON VAR

ON VAR statements are evaluated after all ON PGMST and ON SYSOUT statements have been addressed. ON VAR statements are usually, but not necessarily, followed by user-specified DO actions. The implied relationship between ON VAR statements and associated DO statements is: if the ON VAR statement criteria is satisfied, perform the associated DO statement actions.

In a new job scheduling definition, an empty ON VAR statement is followed by an empty DO statement. Additional ON VAR statements can be opened in the job scheduling definition as follows:

• Upon specifying the ON VAR subparameters and pressing Enter, an empty ON VAR statement and DO statement is opened following the current ON VAR and DO statements. The new ON VAR and DO statements, if filled in, are not logically connected to the preceding ON VAR and DO statements. They constitute a new ON VAR block and DO block.

  Multiple ON VAR blocks are generally interpreted sequentially from first to last, except when an ON VAR block contains an And/Or Boolean connector. All such blocks containing Boolean connectors are processed last regardless of their position in the list of ON VAR blocks.

  If the conditions of an ON VAR block are satisfied, the accompanying DO actions are performed. The conditions of more than one ON VAR block can be satisfied; therefore, more than one set of DO statements can be performed.

• When you fill in the A/O (And/Or) subparameter of an ON VAR statement, an empty ON VAR statement is opened immediately, before the accompanying DO statement. The specified A/O value logically connects the new ON VAR statement to the preceding ON VAR statement. These two ON VAR statements constitute a single ON VAR block.

Below are examples of ON VAR statements with various operators:

ON VAR Example 1:

ON VAR %%VARIABLE1

OPERATOR GT   Greater than (>)

VAL %%VAR10

  DO FORCEJOB

ON VAR Example 2, with a block of two ON VAR statements:

ON VAR %%VARIABLE2

OPERATOR NP   Is not empty

VAL N/A                                               A/O A

ON VAR %%VARIABLE3

OPERATOR IR   In range (a<=x<=b)

MIN 10000

MAX 80000

  DO FORCEJOB