General Parameters

The first set of parameters you fill in are the General parameters. You use these parameters to define general information about the decollating mission, much of which can be used for tracking and control purposes.

Figure 9 General Mission Parameters

   CATEGORY PROD                      JOBNAME JOB6     GENERIC   MONITOR      

   OWNER    M90         TASKTYPE REP  GROUP ACCOUNTS-PAYABLE     JOBID     

   DESC JOB6 PRODUCES THREE ACCOUNTS PAYABLE REPORTS                           

   DESC

CATEGORY Recommendations

You can use the CATEGORY parameter to create multiple decollating mission definitions for the same job (name). You may want to do this if the batch job creates different reports on different days with different decollating parameters. For example:

Table 21 Using Multiple Decollating Mission Definitions - Example

In the above example, set up three different decollating mission definitions to handle the various reports produced by the batch job named JOB6. This can be done by using the CATEGORY parameter, and by defining an appropriate report decollating mission for each category:

Table 22 Using CATEGORY Parameter - Example

Many sites have standard naming conventions for their batch jobs and do not encounter the above problem (for example, the weekly and monthly runs of the batch job have a different name than the daily run). It may be more applicable for you to define only one category per batch job, such as DAILY. Another option may be to set up two categories per batch job: one called PROD for all tested report decollating missions, and one called TEST for all report decollating missions being updated, changed or tested. This would help prevent incorrect changes to a current production definition, and would provide a safe fallback. For example:

Table 23 Using CATEGORY Parameter - TEST and PROD Example