Using the Manual Conditions File

The Manual Conditions file provides the user with a list of conditions for which manual intervention is required if the conditions are to be added to the IOA Conditions file.

To utilize this list effectively, the user must distinguish between two types of conditions in the list because each requires a different type of intervention. From the user perspective, the two types of conditions are:

• Manual Conditions

  Conditions that always require manual intervention and are therefore never automatically added by jobs as OUT or DO COND conditions.

  Example

  Job-X, which requires that a tape has arrived before the job is submitted, contains IN prerequisite condition TAPE-ARRIVED.

  This condition must not be automatically added to the IOA Conditions file by a job, but must instead be manually added by the operator only after the tape has arrived.

• Unscheduled Conditions

  Conditions that can be added automatically by a job, but which appear in the Manual Conditions list because none of the jobs scheduled that day set the condition.

  Example

  Job-B requires IN condition JOB-A-ENDED-OK. This condition is added as an OUT condition by Job-A. Job-B is scheduled on a day during which Job-A is not scheduled.

  The distinction between the two types of conditions mentioned above is important because each type requires a different user response, as described below.