diff --git a/DATA/production/common/getStat.sh b/DATA/production/common/getStat.sh
index 29a0fdbaa..32f149ff8 100755
--- a/DATA/production/common/getStat.sh
+++ b/DATA/production/common/getStat.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ nCTFsFilesFailed=`grep "FileFetcher: non-zero exit code [0-9]*" $1 | wc -l`
 nCTFsProcessed=`grep "Read CTF" $1 | tail -1 | sed 's/^.*Read CTF \([0-9]*\).*$/\1/'`
 nCTFsProcessed=$((nCTFsProcessed + 1))
 
-if [[ $nCTFsFilesInspected != $((nCTFsFilesFailed + nCTFsFilesOK)) ]]; then
+if [[ $nCTFsFilesInspected > 0 && $nCTFsFilesInspected != $((nCTFsFilesFailed + nCTFsFilesOK)) ]]; then
   echo "Something went wrong with parsing the log file: CTF files inspected ($nCTFsFilesInspected) is not the sum of those successfully processed ($nCTFsFilesOK) and those that failed ($nCTFsFilesFailed)"
   exit 8
 fi
diff --git a/DATA/production/configurations/asyncReco/async_pass.sh b/DATA/production/configurations/asyncReco/async_pass.sh
index 28969d0ce..3911ffcdb 100755
--- a/DATA/production/configurations/asyncReco/async_pass.sh
+++ b/DATA/production/configurations/asyncReco/async_pass.sh
@@ -23,23 +23,28 @@ timeStartFullProcessing=`date +%s`
 export inputarg="${1}"
 
 if [[ "${1##*.}" == "root" ]]; then
-    #echo ${1##*.}
-    #echo "alien://${1}" > list.list
-    #export MODE="remote"
-    echo "${1}" > list.list
-    if [[ ! -z $ASYNC_BENCHMARK_ITERATIONS ]]; then
-      for i in `seq 1 $ASYNC_BENCHMARK_ITERATIONS`; do echo "${1}" >> list.list; done
-    fi
-    export MODE="LOCAL"
-    shift
+  #echo ${1##*.}
+  #echo "alien://${1}" > list.list
+  #export MODE="remote"
+  echo "${1}" > list.list
+  if [[ ! -z $ASYNC_BENCHMARK_ITERATIONS ]]; then
+    for i in `seq 1 $ASYNC_BENCHMARK_ITERATIONS`; do echo "${1}" >> list.list; done
+  fi
+  export MODE="LOCAL"
+  shift
 elif [[ "${1##*.}" == "xml" ]]; then
+  if [[ $ALIEN_JDL_DOWNLOADINPUTFILES == "1" ]]; then
+    echo "Downloading input files done by the job agent"
+    sed -rn 's/.*file\ name="(o2_ctf[^"]*)".*/\1/p' $1 > list.list
+  else
     sed -rn 's/.*turl="([^"]*)".*/\1/p' $1 > list.list
-    export MODE="remote"
-    shift
+  fi
+  export MODE="remote"
+  shift
 elif [[ $1 != "list.list" && "${1##*.}" == "list" ]]; then
-    cp $1 list.list
-    export MODE="remote"
-    shift
+  cp $1 list.list
+  export MODE="remote"
+  shift
 fi
 
 # Could need sometimes to iterate just a subset of the input files