Ordering Jobs and Folders

This procedure describes how to order Jobs and Folders, which enables you to manually order or force Jobs.

Ordering Jobs and Folders:

1. Do one of the following:
   • If you want to order the entire Workspace, click Order, and Order Workspace.
   • If you want to order selected entities, select the Folders/Jobs you want to order (Ctrl ans select), click Order, and Order Selected. Selecting a Folder orders all Jobs in that Folder.

     NOTE: You cannot order selected Jobs contained in different Sub Folders into a new SMART Folder. You can order the Jobs individually.

   The order pane appears.

2. Select one or more of the following options:
   • Ignore scheduling criteria: Run the Jobs and Folders regardless of their scheduling criteria.
   • Order as independent flow: Orders the flow as a unique flow, in which a unique suffix is added to every condition name. If a flow is ordered more than once, this ensures that the Jobs have the correct dependencies.
   • Hold: Hold a Job or Folder before it starts running. This enables you to customize the Jobs/Folder before they actually run.
3. In the Order Date area, from the drop-down select one of the following:
   • Current working date: The Job is ordered on its current scheduled working date.
   • Order now with a different order date: The Job runs now, and runs again on the selected order date. To see how to use this option, see Ordering a Job now with a different order date example.
   • Wait for selected order date to run: The Job must wait for the selected ordered date.
4. Add any variables as needed.
5. Click Order.

   If the order fails, you can check the errors in the Order Reports panel.

   The Jobs/Folders are ordered. You can check the status and perform additional actions in the Control-M Monitoring Domain.