New Day Procedure Flow

Once a day, at a time set by the INCONTROL administrator, the Control‑M monitor begins New Day processing by going into a suspended state and issuing the following messages (the first is a highlighted, unrollable message):

Shortly after that last message is issued, started task CTMTDAY (the New Day procedure) is automatically activated.

If CTMTDAY finishes executing without any problems, the following messages are issued, and the suspended Control‑M monitor resumes normal processing:

• If a problem occurs during the formatting step (CTMFRM) of CTMTDAY processing, the Control‑M monitor prompts the operator for an appropriate response using the following messages:

  CTML05W NEW DAY PROCESSING ERROR DETECTED
  CTML06W REPLY "R" FOR RESUME OR "E" FOR END

  The operator should try to correct the problem and rerun the CTMTDAY procedure as described below. Once the CTMTDAY procedure runs successfully, the operator should reply R to message CTML06W, which enables the
  Control-M monitor to resume normal processing. Terminating execution of the Control-M monitor (option E) should only be requested if the problem cannot be corrected.

  Procedure CTMTDAY can be rerun—while the Control-M monitor is suspended for Newday processing—in one of the modes described in the following table.

  Table 104 CTMTDAY modes with Control-M monitor suspended

  Command	Description
  S CTMTDAY	AJF formatting and job ordering are performed as in normal Newday processing. The formatting step includes deletion of the current Control-M working day conditions from the IOA Conditions file.
  S CTMTDAY, NEWDAY=ORDERONLY[,date]	Performs job ordering only and not AJF formatting. If date is not specified, the current ODATE is used. Otherwise, date determines the ODATE.
  S CTMTDAY,NEWDAY= FORMATONLY	Performs AJF formatting only (equivalent to the COMPRESS command of utility CTMCAJF). Does not delete conditions for the current working day.

  If the CTMTDAY problem is related to a Table problem, setting parameter CNTERCRD to Y in member CTMPARM can avoid such CTMTDAY failures. If this parameter is set to Y, the ordering process bypasses scheduling errors within a job, and skips to the next job. If the error is in a SMART Table Entity or in a job belonging to a SMART Table, processing skips the entire table and continues with the next job or table. If the CNTERCRD parameter is set to N, it may be necessary to rerun the job ordering process of the CTMTDAY procedure, as follows:

  S CTMTDAY,NEWDAY=ORDERONLY

• During New Day processing, CTMTDAY checks the system date and time against what it expects to find in the Control‑M control files. If they do not match, the operator is prompted with the following messages:

  CTM426W CTMTDAY "DAILY" DID NOT RUN FOR nnnnnn DAYS

  CTM43CI CONTENTS OF DATE Control RECORD:

  CTM437I date-1 date-2 date-3 date-4 date-5 date-6 date-7

  CTM439W REPLY 'C' TO CONTINUE, 'U' TO UPDATE DATEREC TO

      CURRENT DAY EXECUTION, OR 'E' TO END

  Respond using one of the following options:

  • If the computer has not been working for a few days (for example, a hardware failure or holiday), enter one of the following:
    • C—all conditions in the IOA conditions file whose date corresponds to the intermittent days will be deleted. If RETRO is enabled in the scheduling definition, jobs for all intermittent days will also be ordered.
    • U—updates the Date Control Record to the current system date and continues execution. (Only jobs scheduled for the current working day will be ordered.)
  • If the computer was IPLed with the wrong date, enter E, check and correct the date on the computer, and then restart procedure CTMTDAY.
  • If the date on the computer is correct and was working the previous day, contact the INCONTROL administrator to check the cause of the problem.

If the Control‑M monitor has been down for more than 28 days, the previous working date (the current working date minus 1) must be manually specified as date values 1 through 6.