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Commands of the Job Scheduling Definition Screen

The following commands can be entered in the COMMAND field of the Job Scheduling Definition screen.

Table 42 Commands of the Job Scheduling Definition Screen

Command

Description

EDIT

Alternately places the job scheduling definition in, and removes the job scheduling definition from, an ISPF-like Edit environment.

For a brief overview, see Editing Job Scheduling Definitions in the Edit Environment. For more complete details, see The Control-M Application Program Interface (CTMAPI).

DOC

Alternately displays and hides the job documentation.

For more information, see Job Documentation.

PLAN

Enables display of the job's scheduling plan.

When the PLAN command is entered, a window for entering the date range of the plan is displayed. When the date range is entered, the scheduling plan for the job is displayed in the Job Scheduling Plan screen.

For more information, see Displaying a Job Scheduling Plan.

JOBSTAT

Displays the Statistics screen, which provides statistics for the job.

To display statistics for the currently displayed job, type:

JOBSTAT (abbreviated J)

To display statistics for any job other than the current job, format of the command is:

JOBSTAT jobname tablename

Entering a table name is optional, but if no table name is entered, statistics are displayed only for jobs not belonging to any table.

For more information, see Statistics Screen.

CHANGE

Replaces an existing string with a new string.

The format of the command is:

CHANGE oldstring newstring

where:

  • oldstring is the existing string to be replaced
  • newstring is the string that replaces the existing string

NEXT

The NEXT command (PF11/PF23) keeps the changes to the current job scheduling definition in memory and automatically displays the next job scheduling definition in the table.

For more information, see Exiting the Job Scheduling Definition Screen.

PREV

The PREV command (PF10/PF22) keeps the changes to the current job scheduling definition in memory and automatically displays the previous job scheduling definition in the table.

For more information, see Exiting the Job Scheduling Definition Screen.

If a string contains embedded spaces, enclose the string in apostrophes (') or quotation marks (").

To repeat a CHANGE command, press PF09/PF21.

Parent Topic

Job Scheduling Definition Screen – Defining Schedules