Scope

• Who is the target audience?
• What is covered by the docs? what is not?
• What skills / experiences should a  reader have?

Motivation

• What is this feature good for?
  • It adds a capability to the product
  • It allows graphical configuration of job dependencies
• What problem does it solve?
  • This feature was developed to add better backward dependencies to JobScheduler. 
  • What are the differences between forward dependencies and backward dependencies?
• Roadmap
  • This feature is subject to future improvement:
    • Improved usability
    • add editing capabilities for jobs in order to replace JOE
    • improved navigation and display of dependent job streams
  • Provide export functionality to display (print) job streams in PDF, PNG

Use Cases

Use Case 1: Implement a simple backward dependency

job1 → job2 → job3 → job4

Use Case 2: Implement split & join

Use Case 3: Implement a job stream across folders

Use Case 4: Use job streams for monitoring

Use Case 5: Use job streams to analyze job execution problems

References

• Links to other articles
• Links  to JIRA
  • JOC-712 - Getting issue details... STATUS