Active Jobs File

Each job scheduling definition contains criteria that determine whether the job must be scheduled on a given day. If based on these criteria a job must be scheduled, a copy of its job scheduling definition is placed in a file called the Active Jobs File. The mechanism by which job scheduling definitions are placed in the Active Jobs File is discussed in the job ordering and job forcing section of the Control-M for z/OS User Guide. Only jobs in the Active Jobs File are candidates for submission by the Control-M. In the Control-M/Assist environment, however, jobs are scheduled and submitted externally to Control-M.

In the Control-M/Assist environment, CMEM rules capture JOBARRIVAL events, forcing the jobs definition to the Active Job File as a special kind of jobs known as ONSPOOL jobs (jobs that Control-M needs to post-process but not to submit).