Cisco Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler 6.2 User Guide

In the Operator field, select whether the file dependency Equals

or Does not equal the following status 

to satisfy the dependency. For example, you can set the job dependency to Equal the Completed 
Normally status.

In the Status field, select the status to use to satisfy the dependency. You can choose between Active

, 

, 

, 

Error Occurred, Externally Defined

and

A job group becomes active when any of its associated jobs become active. If all jobs in a job group 
depend on the job group becoming active, no jobs will launch.

If the job repeats during the day, select which instance of the job will trigger the dependency from the 
Occurrence drop-down menu. 

Select First Occurrence if you want the first instance of the preceding job to match the status 
criterion.

Select Last Occurrence if you want the last instance of the preceding job to match the status 
criterion.

Select Match Occurrence when both jobs repeat during the day, and the dependency should 
match instance numbers.

There are two ways to apply the First/Last/Match

dependency logic: by day instance or group instance. 

To specify an instance offset, you can do so in the Offset field. This field only applies to First 
Occurrence and Last Occurrence. When applied to First Occurrence, specifies which instance after 
the first to use in satisfying the dependency. When applied to Last Occurrence, specifies which instance 
from the last.

If you want to specify an instance of a job that occurred a certain number of days in the past, go to the 
Date Offset field, and type the number of days in the past for the required job dependency. For example, 
if Job A repeats daily, but you want your job to be dependent on Job A’s instance 3 days ago, specify 

 

in this field.

Select Ignore this dependency if Job not in schedule if the dependency only applies when the job is 
part of the production schedule.

Click OK to add the job dependency.

If your job has more than one dependency (file, job, variable or time), all dependencies must be satisfied 
for the job to run. It is possible for a dependency’s state to change from satisfied to unsatisfied. If this 
occurs, the job will only run when all dependencies have been satisfied at the same time.

You can have a job that depends on the status of a file on any system in your network. For example, Job 
A can be defined to run only when file data.txt exists in the

directory.

To add a file dependency to a job:

From the Navigator pane, select Definitions>Jobs to display the Jobs pane. 

Double-click the job or job group that you want to edit to display the Job or Job Group Definition 
dialog.