Viewing job dependencies

About this task

The bjdepinfo command displays any dependencies that jobs have, either jobs that depend on a job or jobs that your job depends on.

By specifying -r, you get not only direct dependencies (job A depends on job B), but also indirect dependencies (job A depends on job B, job B depends on jobs C and D). You can also limit the number of levels returned using the -r option.

The -l option displays results in greater detail.

Procedure

To display all jobs that this job depends on:

bjdepinfo 123

JOBID PARENT PARENT_STATUS PARENT_NAME  LEVEL

123   32522  RUN           JOB32522     1

To display jobs that depend on a job, you specify (display child jobs):

bjdepinfo -c 300

JOBID CHILD CHILD_STATUS CHILD_NAME LEVEL

300   310   PEND         JOB310     1

300   311   PEND         JOB311     1

300   312   PEND         JOB312     1

To display the parent jobs that cause a job to pend:

bjdepinfo -p 100

These jobs are always pending because their dependency has not yet been satisfied.

JOBID PARENT PARENT_STATUS PARENT_NAME LEVEL

100   99     PEND          JOB99       1

100   98     PEND          JOB98       1

100   97     PEND          JOB97       1

100   30     PEND          JOB30       1

Display more information about job dependencies including whether the condition has been satisfied or not and the condition that is on the job:

bjdepinfo -l 32522

Dependency condition of job <32522> is not satisfied: done(23455)

JOBID PARENT PARENT_STATUS PARENT_NAME  LEVEL

32522 23455  RUN           JOB23455     1

Display information about job dependencies that includes only direct dependencies and two levels of indirect dependencies:

bjdepinfo -r 3 -l 100

Dependency condition of job <100> is not satisfied: done(99) && ended(98) && done(97) && done(96)

JOBID PARENT PARENT_STATUS PARENT_NAME LEVEL

100   99     PEND          JOB99       1

100   98     PEND          JOB98       1

100   97     PEND          JOB97       1

100   96     DONE          JOB96       1

Dependency condition of job <97> is not satisfied: done(89)

JOBID PARENT PARENT_STATUS PARENT_NAME LEVEL

97    89     PEND          JOB89       2

Dependency condition of job <89> is not satisfied: ended(86)

JOBID PARENT PARENT_STATUS PARENT_NAME LEVEL

89    86     PEND          JOB86       3