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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM MAS - Manage (Base)
Categories System Admin Config/Security
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 8, 2025

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Add ability to define list of jobs that a specific Async crontask is not allowed to run

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Problem

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Currently the async crontasks allow you to specify a list of jobs that they can run.

If no jobs are specified for a particular crontask then that crontask can pick any job to run. It is unclear if jobs specified for one crontask can be processed by another cron where thre job was included in its job list.

There is a risk that the wrong cron could process the job and delay other jobs.

Request

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Implement crontask donotrun type functionality so the "incorrect" crontask does not handle the work if another cron includes the name of the job.

 

this would be used by administrators to reduce the risk of a system experiencing delays executing scripts because the wrong cron processed the request.

 

Idea priority High
Needed By Month
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    |     Jan 9, 2025

    For clarity, this is regarding the AsyncImmediateJobCron and AsyncScheduledJobCron cron tasks. These cron task instances take `condition` and `jobnames` parameters, and this Idea is about adding a `donotrun` parameter which would take a list of job names that should NOT be run by this cron task instance.

    In addition, please provide clear documentation on these cron tasks. Particularly, such documentation should explain whether a job name appearing in the `jobnames` for one instance will or will not prevent another instance from processing it.

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