Condition Name

Name of the In Condition.

Length:

• 1 through 255 characters.
• z/OS: Not more than 39 characters

Case Sensitive: Yes

Invalid Characters:

• Blanks, parentheses; "|" (pipe)
• Computers other than z/OS: Single quotation marks

Order Date

The date definitions of the condition.

• Any Date: Any scheduling date. The Condition parameter is satisfied if any prerequisite condition with the same name exists, regardless of its associated date.
• No Date: Condition is not date-dependent.

  This value is valid only for Control‑M/Server version 6.0.01 and later or for Control‑M for z/OS.

• Order Date: Variable that is automatically replaced by the Job’s original scheduling date (that is, the date on which the Job was ordered).
• Previous Order Date: Variable that is automatically replaced by the Job’s previous scheduling date.
• Next Order Date: Variable that is automatically replaced by the Job’s next scheduling date.
• Specific Date: A 4-digit date reference in the mmdd or ddmm format, depending on the site standard.
• Offset: + or - followed by a number from 0 through 999, indicating the number of days in the future (+), or in the past (-), relative to the actual order date.

Relationships

Specifies the logical relationship between In Conditions.

• AND Between All: Specifies that all In Conditions have an AND relationship
• OR Between All: Specifies that all In Conditions have an OR relationship
• Set Manually: Enables you to set the Condition Relationship criteria manually

Brackets

Parentheses are used to isolate groups of In Conditions in a longer list of conditions to indicate logical relationships that are resolved before the entire condition statement is resolved.

Pairs of parentheses cannot be nested.

blank: Indicates no special relationship between the current and following condition:

• "(" Beginning of a comparison between successive conditions.
• ")" End of a comparison between successive conditions