Scheduling Definition Facility

The Control-M Scheduling Definition facility enables you to create, view, or modify scheduling definitions for the jobs in your environment. A scheduling definition consists of parameters that correspond to the decisions and actions of the operator when handling the scheduling, submission, and post-processing of a job or set of jobs.

The job scheduling definition for a job needs to be defined only once. After the job definition is defined, the definition is saved and used as necessary for managing job processing. Job scheduling definitions can be modified or deleted as required.

Job scheduling definitions are stored in members called tables. Any number of tables can be defined, and each table can contain any number of job scheduling definitions.

In many production environments, related applications are scheduled together as a unit. In these cases, it is common to store job scheduling definitions of all related applications in members called SMART Tables, and to define scheduling parameters for the set of jobs. This is accomplished by defining the scheduling parameters in the SMART Table Entity.

Tables (members) are stored in scheduling libraries. You can define any number of scheduling libraries. The number of tables in a library, the number of scheduling definitions in a table, and the size of each scheduling definition, are all calculated dynamically.

Note: The Control-M Scheduling Definition facility does not support members that have been compressed using the ISPF PACK option.