It is recommended that you establish dependency between the successful execution of the job under the production control system and the processing of the job’s reports by the Control‑D report decollating mission. This dependency can be established using the prerequisite condition concept.

A prerequisite condition (for example, REP‑M01AUPD‑READY) must be specified in the IN parameter of the Control‑D report decollating mission. This condition is added to the IOA Conditions file by the production control system after the job finishes executing successfully.

Use utility IOACND to add a prerequisite condition. This utility can be activated from

• a production control system user exit
• a specially defined successor task of the job under the production control system
• a job step.

It is not mandatory to establish through dependency prerequisite conditions between the production control system and Control‑D. If dependency is not established, Control‑D processes the reports when the job enters the output queue. It is also possible to use manual prerequisite conditions for report processing when required.