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Parameters of the New Day Procedure

You can define the parameters of the New Day procedure the special members of the CTD PARM library. The list of these members is specified in the CTDVAR procedure.

Program CTDFRM, activated as part of the New Day procedure, is responsible (among other duties) for erasing all Control‑D related conditions from the IOA Conditions file for the current day. Prerequisite conditions are always assigned a date reference (day and month). They can be kept in the IOA Conditions file for a entire year. Therefore, it is necessary to erase them at the beginning of each working day. Otherwise, missions may be triggered because of conditions remaining from the previous year.

It is common to use prerequisite conditions that are not date‑dependent, such as IMS‑IS‑UP, or AR‑FILE‑OK. It is important that these conditions not be erased. You can supply a list of conditions that are not to be erased through DD statement DAFRMIN. The syntax is

IGNORE COND prefix

where prefix is the name (or mask) of conditions not to be erased. If an asterisk (*) is specified, no conditions are erased. Multiple IGNORE statements can be specified.

When the Control‑M Production Control System is installed at your site, the Control‑M Resources file is updated by Control‑M.

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New Day Processing