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General Parameters for job scheduling definitions – Summary

General parameters provide general information about the job and certain information required by the JCL. Information about the following parameters is provided in this chapter:

Table 156 General Parameters

Parameter

Description

MEMNAME

Member containing the JCL.

MEMLIB

Library containing the JCL member.

OWNER

Owner of the job.

TASKTYPE

Type of job or task.

§Restart§ PREVENT NCT2

Whether to perform data set cleanup before the original job run.

DFLT – Protected field indicating the PREVENT-NCT2 default value of the site.

APPL

Application to which the job belongs.

GROUP

Group to which the job belongs.

DESC

Brief description of the job.

OVERLIB

Library containing a special case JCL for the job.

STAT CAL

Name of a periodic calendar that will be used to gather average runtime statistics for the job, based on a period.

SCHENV

Name of the workload management scheduling environment to be associated with the job.

SYSTEM ID

In JES2, the identity of the system in which the job must be initiated and executed.

In JES3, the identity of the processor on which the job must be executed.

NJE NODE

Identifies the node in the JES system at which the job must execute.

SET VAR

Mechanism for setting the value of a JCL user-defined variable.

CTB STEP

Control-M/Analyzer step to be added to the execution of the job.

DOCMEM

Member containing detailed information about the job.

DOCLIB

Library containing the member specified in the DOCMEM parameter.

DOC

Detailed job documentation.

INSTREAM JCL

Whether Control-M for z/OS submits a JCL stream defined within the job scheduling definition.

The following General parameters are in the SMART Table Entity only:

ADJUST CONDITIONS

Allows conditions to be removed from job orders if the predecessor jobs that set the conditions are not scheduled.

TBL MAXWAIT

Number of additional days after the original scheduling date that the SMART Table Entity can remain in the Active Jobs file if it does not have a status of ENDED OK (and none of its jobs currently appear in the Active Jobs file).

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Overview for job scheduling definitions