(Administrator rights for owner SYSDBA required)

You can define a job network to be executed after each Monitor start and before the activation of any other job.

If a job network with the name MON-START is defined under the owner SYSDBA, this network is executed exclusively at each Monitor startup. This is called the Monitor start network.

No other job network is started until the start network is terminated correctly.

The last job of the start network must not set any condition (but can reset conditions). During execution of the start network, the absolute condition MON-START-RUNNING (owner SYSDBA) is set.

If any job of the start network ends not OK, this condition remains true and blocks any other Monitor action. The condition can be reset manually to free continuation of other processing. While the absolute condition is active, the message Start Network still running appears in the log and on the system console during each Monitor pass.

This document covers the following topics:

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Monitor Start Network

You can define a job network to be executed after each Monitor start and before the activation of any other job.

If a job network with the name MON-START is defined under the owner SYSDBA, this network is executed exclusively at each Monitor startup. This is called the Monitor start network.

No other job network is started until the start network is terminated correctly.

The last job of the start network must not set any condition (but can reset conditions). During execution of the start network, the absolute condition MON-START-RUNNING (owner SYSDBA) is set.

If any job of the start network ends not OK, this condition remains true and blocks any other Monitor action. The condition can be reset manually to free continuation of other processing. While the absolute condition is active, the message Start Network still running appears in the log and on the system console during each Monitor pass.

Execution

The start network is intended to run exclusively before any other network. Therefore, the absolute condition MON-START-RUNNING (owner SYSDBA) is set at activation time.

The setting of this condition is automatically taken over by the first job of the start network. This job sets no conditions during End-of-Job checking and actions.

Day Start Network

You can define a job network to be executed at the start of each day (when the date changes) and before the activation of any other job. If the Monitor is not active at this time, it is executed at Monitor start time.

If a network with the name DAY-START is defined under the owner SYSDBA.

Day Start Execution

The start network is intended to run exclusively before any other network. Therefore, the absolute condition DAY-START-RUNNING (owner SYSDBA) is set at activation time.

The setting of this condition is automatically taken over by the first job of the start network. This job sets no conditions during End-of-Job checking and actions.

Common Start Network Considerations

• Exclusive Execution

• Use

The considerations in this section apply to the Monitor start network and the day start network.

Exclusive Execution

While a start network is running, a warning message is repeatedly written to the log.

During the execution of the start network, the following Monitor activities are blocked:

• Schedule extraction

• Activation (except start network)

• Cleanup

Use

Some possibilities for the use of the start network are:

• Preparation of symbol tables for other networks;

• Activation of other networks;

• Condition setting;

• Any Entire System Server functions.