General Information for INTERVAL

The INTERVAL parameter defines a minimum interval between automatic reruns or cyclic runs of the same job.

Once the job has run, the Control-M Monitor does not rerun or resubmit the job unless both the following conditions are satisfied:

• the specified time has passed
• all runtime submission criteria, such as resources, conditions, and so on, are satisfied

The FROM subparameter specifies the point from which the interval is measured. The values set for this subparameter have the following effects:

• If STRT is specified, the interval is measured from the start time of the previous run.
• If END is specified, the interval is measured from the time the previous run ended.
• If TRGT is specified, the interval is measured from the scheduling time of the current job run.

  If no value was specified in the TIME FROM parameter, the interval is measured from the time the Control-M Monitor scheduled the current job run.

For more information about the TIME FROM parameter, see TIME + DAYS: Runtime Scheduling Parameter.

A job’s INTERVAL parameter is ignored when performing a Rerun (R) command for a job in screen 3.