Loading of Rules

When Control‑M/Tape is started (or rules need to be reloaded), Control‑M/Tape attempts to read a list of rule tables from the member referenced by the DARULLST DD statement. These rule tables are automatically loaded by Control‑M/Tape. The supplied default member RULLIST is in the Control‑M/Tape PARM library. Each line in the list has the following format:

where

• date is the date of the rule table. If a specific date is designated, it is used to analyze the Basic Scheduling parameters. The date format is mmddyy, ddmmyy, or yymmdd (depending on the site standard).

  Specifying an asterisk (*) indicates the current Control‑M/Tape Working Date.

• library is the name of the library in which the rule table is located.
• table is the name of the rule table.
• operation is the operation to be performed on the rules in the specified table. Valid values are

  — ORDER: Each rule’s Basic Scheduling parameters are compared to the specified date (or the current Control‑M/Tape Working Date when * is specified). If the rule must be scheduled on that date, it is loaded by Control‑M/Tape and activated. Default.

  — FORCE: Each rule is loaded by Control‑M/Tape and activated. Use the FORCE option when you do not want to use Control‑M/Tape scheduling options.

For every line in the list, Control‑M/Tape loads the specified rule table from the specified library.