General Information for CONFCAL

CONFCAL calendars are useful for handling holidays and other scheduling exceptions.

CONFCAL is optional. If no value is set for the CONFCAL parameter, jobs are scheduled according to other basic scheduling criteria without confirmation.

CONFCAL must not contain the name of a periodic calendar. If it does, no day can pass the confirmation.

CONFCAL cannot be used with the PDS and MINIMUM parameters.

The SHIFT Subparameter

If no CONFCAL calendar is specified, no value can be entered in the SHIFT subparameter, and this field has no effect on job scheduling.

The format and valid values of the SHIFT subparameter are described in Table 167.

The interaction between the x value and the yyy value of the SHIFT subparameter is as follows:

• If the original scheduling day of the job is a working day in the CONFCAL calendar, the x value is ignored and the yyy value determines when the job is scheduled.
• If the original scheduling day of the job is not a working day in the CONFCAL calendar, job scheduling is shifted according to the x value and then shifted again according to the yyy value (if specified) to determine when the job is scheduled.

If the original scheduling day is not a working day and the x value is blank, the job is not scheduled (regardless of whether a yyy value is specified).

If the result of shifting by yyy days is a day that is not allowed, that is, if -n was entered for that day in the DAYS parameter of the job scheduling definition, the job is shifted again to the next allowed working day (for a forward shift) or to the previous allowed working day (for a backward shift).

Note: Prior to version 5.1.4, the SHIFT subparameter consisted of only the x value. If the yyy value is not specified, CONFCAL and SHIFT work as they did prior to version 5.1.4, and version 5.1.4 job scheduling definitions do not need to be changed.