Calendars

Calendars are reusable Job schedules. You can define a calendar once, and then apply the calendar to all relevant Job definitions. This saves you from defining the criteria individually for each Job, and allows subsequent schedule changes to be made at a single location.

There are three calendar types, and depending on your scheduling needs, each calendar addresses different scheduling requirements.The following are the calendar types:

• Regular calendars: Enables you to create a predefined calendar based on certain dates (the days of the month and/or the days of the week) in a selected year. For more information, see Regular Calendar
• Periodic calendars: Enables you to create a predefined calendar based on different calendar periods other than months and days. For more information, see Periodic Calendar.
• Rule-based Calendars: Enables you to create a predefined calendar based on specific rules, independent of specific years. Rule Based Calendars give you flexibility to address different scenarios. For more information, see Rule-based Calendar.

Once you create the calendar, as described in Creating a calendar, you can then do the following:

• Publish: Makes a calendar available for use when you schedule Jobs. Publishing a calendar ensures that the calendar is automatically synchronized with the Control-M/Server.
• Push: Manually synchronizes the calendar with the Control-M/Server.
• Pull: Pulls a the latest copy of the calendar from the Control-M/Server.

  For more information on these actions, see Publish, push and pull a calendar.

The created calendars are listed in the Calendar tool grid. You have several options to help manage your calendars, as described in Calendar management.