Creating On Spool Jobs

An On Spool job is an independently submitted job or started task, such as a job submitted by a TSO user, that is brought under the control of the Control-M monitor using a CMEM rule.

Such a CMEM rule must

• be an ON JOBARRIV rule that is triggered by the arrival of the job on the JES spool
• have a DO FORCEJOB statement that forces a job scheduling definition that "matches" the arriving job, so that Control-M can use the instructions in the job scheduling definition to control the job

  The issue of matching the job scheduling definition to the arriving job is discussed in more detail later.

Control-M then controls the entire life cycle of the job, except submission, according to the instructions in the forced job scheduling definition. Because the job has already been submitted, Control-M does not submit the job. However, if the job is held, Control-M releases the job when the runtime scheduling criteria are met.