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HCL Workload Automation for Z
Welcome to the HCL Workload Automation for Z documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the product.
Managing the Workload
You can plan when and how your workload runs and manage it as part of a plan.
Planning and scheduling
Learn how to organize your workload while it runs, and the dependencies among its parts.
Conditioning the processing of operations
Making an operation dependent on another operation step return code
How to activate step dependency evaluation

How to activate step dependency evaluation

If you want the scheduler to check step dependencies, you must ensure that the event writer options, defined by using the EWTROPTS initialization statement, contain one of the following parameters:

STEPEVENTS(ALL)
SDEPFILTER

If you want to use the SDEPFILTER parameter, you must define the programmer name keyword in the JOB card of any JCL corresponding to a condition dependency at step level. The SDEPFILTER parameter must specify a selected subset of the programmer name keyword. For more information about how to set the SDEPFILTER parameter, see Customization and Tuning.

Note: Use the SDEPFILTER parameter as an alternative to the STEPEVENTS(ALL) if you want to reduce the load on scheduling performance.