How a step dependency is evaluated
The scheduler considers the step entries segment of the current plan job name table to obtain updated results about step-end events.
The step dependency is evaluated at step-end time or at job-end time, including jobs manually set to C (Complete) or E (Ended-in-error), whenever no step-end information is available.
The criteria used to evaluate a step dependency are the same as
those described in Evaluating conditions and conditional successor status,
with the following two exceptions:
- The return code (RC) is the only valid check for step dependency.
- If at job-end time the step dependency is not yet evaluated the evaluation is made as described in the following section How the evaluation is done when no step-end event is received.