CTMRFLW – Produce a Table Job Flow Report

The CTMRFLW utility produces a report that provides job flow information about jobs in tables and in the Active Jobs file.

The utility can generate two types of output:

• Job Flow Report

  This report displays the job dependencies. This output is always generated. Jobs are presented in order of execution. The jobs can be sorted by table, in which case they are presented in order of execution by table. This report can be generated in the following formats:

  Table 136 CTMRFLW Formats

  Format	Description
  Chart format	A graphic presentation of job dependencies (in addition to the text format). Job flow is displayed from left to right in chart format (that is, leftmost jobs are not dependent on other jobs). When sorted by table, one table appears in each chart.
  Text format	Report consists of printed text. This format is always generated.

Note: The Job Flow chart can also be viewed online by specifying option G (Graphic Jobflow) in the Table List screen in the Scheduling Definition facility. For details, see Chapter 2, "IOA Utilities.

• Cross Reference lists

  Lists the conditions and resources added, deleted, and/or required by the jobs in the tables. The following separate lists can be produced:

  • prerequisite conditions list
  • control resource list
  • quantitative resource list

  The contents of each list are sorted alphabetically. The Cross Reference lists can be useful for identifying various job requirements. For example

  • Jobs that require more than three tape drives.
  • Jobs that require IMS to be active before they can be executed.
  • Jobs that update a particular VSAM file.
  • Job interdependency.

  By default, the number of lines in a report page is 60. This default can be modified in the EXEC statement.

  Furthermore, by default, all jobs in the tables are included in the report. This default can be modified in the EXEC statement by specifying a successor or a predecessor job:

  • If you specify a successor job, information is provided only for the predecessor jobs leading up to that successor job.
  • If you specify a predecessor job, information is provided only for the successor jobs that follow the predecessor job.