Scheduling

Defines the Scheduling options for the Schedule field in the Scheduling tab of the Properties pane.

Displays your scheduling criteria of a Job or SMART Folder in a calendar yearly view. You can view the current year and the following calendar year.

NOTE: Only available if Control-M Forecast is installed.

Time Settings

Defines an area in the Scheduling tab of the Properties pane where the time frame of the Job's start running time is defined. This includes From Time/To Time and Must End for Z/OS.

From Time

Sets time limits for submitting the Job. For z/OS Jobs, includes the days offset.

• Select Time: Enables you to set the time limits for submitting the Jobs. For z/OS Jobs, includes the days offset.
• End of day (new day time): Enables you to set the Job to be submitted by the end of the day.
• Allow submission past next New Day: Enables you to set the Job to be submitted after its original scheduled date.

HH:MM

To Time

Sets time limits for submitting the Job. You can select one of the following options:

• Select Time: Enables you to set the time limits for submitting the Jobs. For z/OS Jobs, includes the days offset
• End of day (new day time): Enables you to set the Job to be submitted by the end of the day.
• Allow submission past next New Day: Enables you to set the Job to be submitted after its original scheduled date.

HH:MM

Must End

Sets the time and day when the Job must finish executing. Also includes the days offset. (z/OS only)

HH:MM

Rerun Settings

Defines an area in the Scheduling tab of the Properties pane to set rerun settings including Cyclic, Maximum reruns, and Rerun Member.

A Job can run more than once after order when one of the following parameters are used:

• The Job's completion status was set to rerun in the Maximum reruns field
• The Job is defined as cyclic

The Job is resubmitted after the specified number of minutes have elapsed from the last rerun or form the start/end of the last run of a cyclic Job and all submission criteria are satisfied.

Cyclic

Indicates that the Job must run at a designated time, interval of time.

Maximum reruns

Determines the maximum number of reruns that can be performed for the Job.

Length:

• An integer from 0 through 99.
• z/OS: There is a difference between cyclic Jobs and regular Jobs:
• Cyclic Jobs – an integer from 0 through 9999
• Regular Jobs – an integer from 0 through 255.

Rerun Member

Defines the name of the JCL member to use when the Job automatically reruns.

For z/OS Jobs.

Length:

• 1-8 characters
• Invalid Characters

Case Sensitive: Yes

Invalid Characters:

• Blanks
• non-English characters

Time Zone

Indicates the time zone according to which the Job should be scheduled.

Activity Period

Defines the area in the Scheduling tab of the Properties pane that describes Active/Not Active between dates, Start Date, and End Date.

Active/Not Active between dates

Determines a date range (Start Date - End Date) when the Job or Folder can be ordered or the Rule-based Calendar (RBC) can be used. During the period that the Job or Folder is outside the active range (that is, inactive), it is not eligible to be ordered.

Active/Not Active From

Sets the following dates when the Job is ordered.

• From: Minimum date to order the Job (Job will not be ordered before this date)
• To: Maximum date when to order the Job (Job will not be ordered after this date)

mm-dd-yy

Active/Not Active To

Sets the date when the Job must be ordered.

mm-dd-yy

Statistics Calendar

(z/OS only) Defines the name of the Control-M periodic calendar, within which statistics relating to the Job are collected.

A valid period calendar name consisting from 1 to 8 alphanumeric characters.

Case Sensitive: Yes

Invalid Characters:

• Blanks
• Non-English characters

Keep Active for

Determines the number of extra days (beyond the original scheduling date) that the Job is allowed to remain in the Active Jobs database while awaiting execution. If the Job still has not run after the specified number of days, the Job is removed from the Active Jobs database.

Length: An integer from 0 through 98 (days), or 99 (no limit)

SAC

Determines whether to adjust the logical date for a Job converted from a scheduling product other than Control‑M.

z/OS parameter

Retroactively order job that its scheduled date has passed

Indicates if the Job should be scheduled for possible execution after its original scheduling date has passed.