Scheduling options

The following table describes the various scheduling options:

Take into consideration that some options might not appear in your properties pane, if they were not specified in the User View you applied.

Option

Description

Every day

Defines the scheduling to be every day, and only runs if all the prerequisite running criteria are met.

None (Manual Order)

Defines no scheduling.

Specific dates

Defines specific dates for the schedule up to 12 dates.

Free space on PDS

(Control-M for z/OS only) Defines the name of a partitioned data set (PDS) to be checked for free space. The following fields are defined:

  • Partition Data Set: Defines the name of a partitioned data set to check for free space. If the Partition Data Set has fewer than the minimum number of required free tracks (as specified for the Minimum number of tracks parameter), the Job is executed.
  • Minimum number of Tracks: Minimum number of free partitioned data set tracks required by the library specified for the Partition Data Set parameter.

Use parent schedule

Defines scheduling for a Job or sub-Folder in a SMART Folder according to the scheduling criteria of the parent SMART Folder.

Advanced

Defines a combination of scheduling options, as described in Scheduling Jobs using the advanced scheduling options.

Parent Topic

Job scheduling