Running Jobs or a Workspace

This procedure describes how to run (previously order) a WorkspaceA working area in the Planning domain where you define new jobs and folders or edit existing jobs and folders, or folders, sub-folders, or jobs within a Workspace.

Begin

1. From the Workspace toolbar, do one of the following:

   • To run a Workspace, click Run and Run Workspace.

     The Run Workspace pane appears.

   • To run selected jobs or folders, click Run and Run Selected.

     The Run Selected pane appears.

     If you select a folder, all the jobs within the folder run.

2. Select one or more of the following:

   • Ignore scheduling criteria: Runs the job or Workspace now, and not according to the scheduling criteria of the job.

   • Run as independent flow: Runs the job or Workspace and adds a unique suffix to every eventAn entity that creates a sequence relationship between jobs by enabling the successor job to execute after the predecessor job has executed name.

   • Hold: Holds a job or Workspace from running.

3. In the Run Date area, from the Date selection drop-down list, select one of the following:

   • Current working date: Runs on the current scheduled working date.

   • Run using a different run date: Runs the Workspace or job using the current date and ignores the defined run date.

   • Wait for a selected run date: Waits for the selected run date.

4. Add variablesA name and value pair that you can reference in your job processing definition, which Control-M resolves for the current execution of the job, as follows:

   1. In the Variables area, click .

   2. In the Name field, type the name of the variable, as follows:

      • Local variableA type of variable that you set and reference in the same job : %%<VARIABLE NAME>

      • Global variableA type of variable that you set in one job and can reference in any subsequent job : %%\<VARIABLE NAME>

      • Named pool variableA type of variable with a pool parameter, that you set in one job and can reference in any subsequent job with the same pool parameter. A Named Pool is a logical grouping of variables. : %%\\<POOL NAME>\<VARIABLE NAME>

      • Folder variableA type of variable that you set in one job and can reference in any subsequent job in the same folder or sub-folder : %%\\<VARIABLE NAME>

      For a description of user-defined variables types, see User-Defined Variables.

   3. In the Value field, type the value of the variable.

5. Click Run.

   The View Run Reports appears in the bottom pane.