It sounds like you have individual triggers on each of the 16 input file (if not, I think you should  have) and an AND condition in LSF which requires all conditions to be met.  If you could insert a step after the AND condition is met that creates a trigger for the rest of the process if and only if the the date is the same as the initial date of the process (which could be a macro variable set by a step triggered by the 6am start) then this would ensure that the process would halt if all the trigger conditions were not met by midnight, and depending on your setup, move the input files out of the way.  The next day a fresh process would be initiated un-compromised by files left over from the previous day.  The halted processes would need to be killed but they would provide diagnostic information. Richard ... View more