Characteristics of the Show Screen filter

The following rules govern the operation of the Show Screen Filter window:

• The Control-M monitor updates the status of jobs and tables displayed in the Active Jobs file (AJF). Therefore, if the Control-M monitor is down, the status displayed in the AJF may not be up-to-date.

  For example, if a job was waiting for a prerequisite input condition when the Control-M monitor went down, the job will continue to be shown as waiting for the condition, even if the condition is present, until the Control-M monitor updates the AJF.

• If you set Wait Sched to Y, the values set for Wait time, Wait Cond, Wait quant, and Wait contrl are ignored. Control-M only looks at the values set for these fields if Wait Sched is set to N.
• Executing is only used for jobs (and not for tables).
• Tbl Active is only used for tables (and not for jobs).
• If a job is part of a table, and the table is waiting for some criteria such as a time requirement, a prerequisite condition, and so on, the job has the same status as the table.

  For example, if the table is waiting for a prerequisite condition, and the filter criteria is Wait Cond, the job will be displayed as waiting for the condition even if the condition is not required by the job scheduling definition of the job itself.

• If the job scheduling definition of a job requires it to wait for more than one input criteria, these criteria are not all checked at once. They are checked in the following sequence:
  • Wait time
  • Wait Cond
  • Wait quant
  • Wait contrl

  For example, if the job is so defined that it must wait for a specific time and for a prerequisite condition, the job will be displayed in the list of jobs waiting for time, but will not be displayed in the list of jobs waiting for prerequisite conditions. However, when the time requirement is satisfied, if the prerequisite condition is not available, the job will be displayed in the list of jobs waiting for prerequisite conditions.