Preparations

In the exercises in the previous chapters of this guide, you created the JCL for five jobs, IDJOB1 through IDJOB5. To simplify preparation for this chapter, you will utilize all five of these JCLs.

In addition, you will utilize one of the job scheduling definitions that you created in Chapter 1, "Introduction to Control-M," the job scheduling definition for IDJOB1, in table IDGS1. For the remaining jobs, you will creates new job scheduling definitions in a new table (IDGS2), as part of the exercises.

Before continuing with the exercises, you should perform the following preparatory steps:

• In the JCL of IDJOB5, change the JCL of step S5 so that it sets a return code of C0008 instead of C0000.
• Ensure the following, which should be the case if you completed all of the steps in the previous chapters of this guide:
  • The JCL for step S1 in IDJOB3 sets a return code of C0000, and not C0008.
  • All conditions from previous exercises in this guide do not appear in, or are deleted from, the IOA Conditions/Resources screen.
  • All job orders from previous exercises in this guide do not appear in, or are deleted from, the Active Environment screen.

You are now ready to look at SMART Table scheduling. For purposes of these exercises, you should assume that the new table contains jobs that must run at end of week and at end of month.