Job management

You can check the Job status, search for Jobs, and perform various Job actions after you have opened a Service or created a viewpoint. You can select a Job option by either right-clicking the Job and then selecting the option or selecting the option from the Actions bar list. The following table describes the Job options, such viewing the Job status, and performing various Job actions in the Service and Viewpoint tabs in the Monitoring domain.

NOTE: If you want to enable Audit Annotations on each Job action, contact your Control-M Administrator.

Job Action	Description
Finding a Job	Enables you to search for a Job. NOTE: You can also find a Job by clicking and selecting Job Search.
Finding a Job within a service or viewpoint	Enables you to search for a Job in a Viewpoint or Service.
Holding a Job	Stops the Job from Control-M processing, and enables you to update the Job.
Releasing a Job	Releases a Job from a Hold state, which enables the Job to run.
Rerunning a Job	Reruns a Job.
Confirming a Job	Confirms a Job that is waiting for a user confirmation, which forces the Job to continue running.
Restarting a Job	Restarts a Control-M for z/OS Job from a specific step.You can also specify a range of steps to restart a Job from. When you restart a Job, files from a previous run of the Job are deleted.
Setting a Job to OK	Describes how to set a Job to end OK, which overrides any defined scheduling criteria and sends the Job to the active Job environment
Setting a Job to OK (No PP)	Enables you to set a Control-M for z/OS Job to end OK. This Job action overrides any scheduling criteria, and post processing Job actions are not performed. The Job is sent to the active Job environment.
Reactivating a Job	Enables you to reactivate a Control-M for z/OS Job or task that was started and has a status of DISAPPEARED or FAILED REASON UNKNOWN.
Skipping a Job	Enables you to skip over a Job, and continue the Job flow. The Job that you skip is not submitted.
Bypassing options in a Job	Enables you to bypass or ignore specific options such as a resource, In condition, or time limit when submitting a Job.
Deleting a Job	Enables you to delete a Job, after it's in the Hold state.
Kill	Describes how to terminate a Job, which cancels a Job from running in the middle of the execution.
Run Now	Describes how to order a Job, which runs the Job and overrides the submission criteria.
Editing a Job	Enables you to edit the Job settings.
Archive Search	Describes how to search for Job log and output archived data stored in the Control-M Workload Archiving Server.
Finding neighborhood Jobs	Describes how to find Jobs that are in the neighborhood of the selected Job.

Parent Topic

Control-M Monitoring