Step 2: When to Schedule the Mission

The second set of parameters you can fill in are the Basic Scheduling parameters. In this section, you define information about when to schedule the mission to the Active Missions file:

Backup Mission Basic Scheduling Parameters

   DAYS                                                          DCAL           

                                                                      AND/OR   

   WDAYS                                                         WCAL           

   MONTHS  1- Y 2- Y 3- Y 4- Y 5- Y 6- Y 7- Y 8- Y 9- Y 10- Y 11- Y 12- Y      

   DATES                                                                        

   CONFCAL          SHIFT   RETRO N MAXWAIT 00                                 

   MINIMUM          PDS                                                         

A scheduling program called by the New Day procedure analyzes these parameters to determine if the mission should be placed in the Active Missions file. The various options for scheduling were detailed in Schedule Backup Mission to the Active Missions File.

We recommend that you select a method for scheduling of the backup missions and implement it at this stage. This will mean that backup procedures will be in place before the implementation of Control-D into production (which will occur in Phase 8).