Job Ordering Through Online Utility CTMJOBRQ

As previously discussed, the occasional job scheduling request can be made using the Order or Force option in the Scheduling Definition facility. At some sites, however, access to Scheduling Definition facility may be restricted for security reasons, for example, to prevent the changing or deletion of job scheduling definitions.

As an alternative to ordering or forcing a job in the Scheduling Definition facility, you can order or force a job using Online Utility M1.

1. Enter the Online Utilities menu and request utility CTMJOBRQ, which is Option M1. The Job Request Utility panel is displayed.

   ----------------------------  JOB REQUEST UTILITY  ----------------------------

   COMMAND ===>

     SCHEDULING LIBRARY      ===> CTM.TEST.SCHEDULE

     TABLE NAME              ===>

     JOB NAME                ===>                       (* for all jobs)

     SCHEDULED RUN DATE      ===> 02 02 01              (ODATE - format MM DD YY)

     FORCED SCHEDULING       ===> NO                    (YES,NO)

     ENTER YES TO CONTINUE   ===>

     GROUP                   ===>                       (Optional)

     CALENDAR LIBRARY        ===> IOA.TEST.CAL

In this panel you can

• specify the name of the library, table and job scheduling definition

  To request all jobs in a table, specify an asterisk in the job name field.

• specify the scheduling run date

  The basic scheduling criteria of the jobs are checked against this date to see if the job should be ordered as requested.

• indicate if you want the job forced if it should not be scheduled on that particular run date
• specify the name of the calendar library

  This tells Control-M where to look if a calendar name is specified in the job scheduling definition. Calendars are discussed in Additional Features.

• specify a group name

Note: The GROUP field is generally useful in tables whose jobs do not inherit the GROUP from the table, and only if an * is specified in the JOB NAME field. It limits the jobs ordered to those belonging to the specified group.

In general, it is probably quicker to use batch utility CTMJOB, especially if you are ordering several jobs. Perhaps the only advantage of online utility CTMJOBRQ is that you do not need to know the format of the order statements—you merely fill in the parameter fields presented in the panel. But CTMJOBRQ is definitely not a powerful utility.