Defining a Job for a Specific Time Zone

The TIME ZONE parameter appears in the Job Scheduling Definition screen (Screen 2) and the Active Environment Zoom screen (Screen 3.Z). The parameter is set using one of the 3-character codes in the TIMEZONE member in the IOA PARM library. A sample TIMEZONE member is provided, but you can edit this to suit your local site requirements. For example, you can use "EST" or "NYC" instead of "G-5" for US Eastern Standard Time.

You can also add a time zone to the predefined list. For more information, see Adding and Modifying Time Zone Definitions.

WARNING: If you modify the 3-character name of a time zone in the TIMEZONE member, but fail to modify every job scheduling definition that uses that time zone in the same way, job scheduling definitions that specify that time zone become invalid. The same happens if you delete a time zone from the TIMEZONE member.

When defining Time Zone jobs, you must take into account the following special considerations:

• If you define a new Time Zone job, you must save it at least 48 hours before the first execution date. This ensures that the job is ordered automatically by the New Day procedure or the User Daily procedure, and is ordered on the date you want.

  If a new Time Zone job must run on the day when you define it, order it manually, by one of the following means:

  • using the CTMJOB utility
  • online, using the Job Scheduling Definition screen (Screen 2)
• In addition to the Time Zone facility, you can also order a job for execution on a future date. For more information on this facility, see the description of the ODATEOPT parameter in the discussion of the CTMJOB utility in the INCONTROL for z/OS Utilities Guide.
• The New Day procedure orders a Time Zone job if the scheduling date of the job occurs within the next 48 hours. However, the User Daily procedure only orders jobs with scheduling criteria for the current working date. BMC therefore recommends that you arrange the jobs for each time zone in a separate table. For more information, see the following section.