General Information for SCHEDULE RBC ACTIVE

The FROM and UNTIL dates together define a time frame for ordering jobs that have a specific rule-based calendar that defines that calendar.

The following cases apply:

• If you specify both the FROM and UNTIL subparameters for a particular rule-based calendar, jobs that refer to that rule-based calendar can only be ordered on or later than the date specified in the FROM subparameter, and on or earlier than the date specified in the UNTIL subparameter. There are two possibilities:
  1. The date specified in the FROM subparameter is earlier than that specified in the UNTIL subparameter.

     For example,

     SCHEDULE RBC ACTIVE FROM   091001    UNTIL   011101

     Jobs that refer to this rule-based calendar can only be ordered on or between October 9, 2001 and November 1, 2001.

  2. The date specified in the FROM subparameter is later than that specified in the UNTIL subparameter.

     For example,

     SCHEDULE RBC ACTIVE FROM   090501    UNTIL   010401

     Jobs that refer to this rule-based calendar can only be ordered on or after May 9, 2001, or before or on April 1, 2001, but not between those dates.

• If you specify the FROM subparameter for a particular rule-based calendar, but not the UNTIL subparameter, jobs that refer to that rule-based calendar cannot be ordered before the date specified, but can be ordered on that date or any date later than that date.

  For example,

  SCHEDULE RBC ACTIVE FROM   091001    UNTIL  

  Jobs that refer to this rule-based calendar can only be ordered on or after October 9, 2001.

• If you do not specify the FROM subparameter for a particular rule-based calendar, but specify the UNTIL subparameter, jobs that refer to the same rule-based calendar cannot be ordered after the date specified, but can be ordered on that date or any date earlier than that date.

  For example,

  SCHEDULE RBC ACTIVE FROM             UNTIL   011101

  Jobs that refer to this rule-based calendar can only be ordered before or on November 1, 2001.

• If you do not specify either the FROM or UNTIL subparameters, there is no restriction on the date when jobs can be ordered.

For example,

SCHEDULE RBC ACTIVE FROM             UNTIL  

Jobs that refer to this rule-based calendar can be ordered on any date.

• If a job specifies more than one rule-based calendar and one of the rule-based calendar definitions is such that the job can be ordered on a particular day, the job is ordered even if it would not be ordered under the terms of another of its rule-based calendar definitions.

  For example, if within a SMART Table Entity one rule-based calendar is specified as

  SCHEDULE RBC ACTIVE FROM   091001    UNTIL   011101

  and another rule-based calendar is specified as

  SCHEDULE RBC ACTIVE FROM             UNTIL

  jobs that have both these rule-based calendars can be ordered on any date.