Job Scheduling Definitions

A job scheduling definition specifies criteria that identify decisions to be made, and actions to be taken, regarding the handling of a particular job. Each job scheduling definition contains the following sections:

Table 2 Job Scheduling Definition Sections

Section	Description
General Parameters	General information about the job (for example, identifies the library and member in which the JCL is stored).
Basic Scheduling Parameters	Criteria according to which Control-M schedules the job.
Runtime Scheduling Parameters	Runtime requirements that must be satisfied before Control-M submits the job.
Post-processing Parameters	Actions Control-M performs after the job ends, depending upon the outcome of job execution. For example, Control-M performs one set of actions if the job ends OK, but another set of actions if an abend occurs.

Job scheduling definitions only need be defined once for each job in the production environment. The mechanism used to define job scheduling definitions is discussed in Online Facilities. Once defined, a job scheduling definition is saved. It can be modified later if required, and the changes saved.

Job scheduling definitions are stored in members in partitioned data sets (libraries), as follows:

Job scheduling definitions for related applications are generally placed in a single member, called a table.
Multiple tables are stored in partitioned data sets, called scheduling libraries.
Multiple scheduling libraries can be defined.

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