Running Jobs or a Workspace

This procedure describes how to run (previously order) a Workspace A working area in the Planning domain where you define and edit new jobs and SMART 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 Workspace or selected jobs or folders now, and not according to the scheduling criteria of the jobs or folders.

   • Run as Independent Flow: Runs the Workspace or selected jobs or folders now. This adds a unique suffix to every job event An conditional entity that creates a sequential relationship between jobs by enabling the successor job to execute after the predecessor job has executed. that is confined to a folder. Events between folders remain unchanged.

   • Hold: Holds a job, folder, 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 variables A memory location with a name and value that you can reference in your job processing definitions, which Control-M resolves for the current job execution., as follows:

   1. In the Variables area, click .

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

      • Local Variable A type of variable that you create and can reference in the same job. : %%<VARIABLE NAME>

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

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

      • Folder Variable A type of variable that you create in one job and can reference in any subsequent jobs in the same folder or sub-folders. : %%\\<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.