Usage

Optional

Format

Select Order Job from the Do list box. The Folder, Job Name, and Date text boxes are displayed.

These sub-parameters are described below.

Variable Support

None

Alternate names

• Control‑M/EM Utilities: FORCEJOB
• Reporting Facility: (none)
• Control‑M/Server Utilities: ‑forcejob
• Control‑M for z/OS: FORCE JOB
• Control‑M/EM API: force_job

Alternate formats

Control‑M/EM Utilities

FORCEJOB consists of the DSN, FOLDER_NAME, NAME, and ODATE sub-parameters. The value of DSN is the Folder Library name, which must be specified for z/OS jobs.

EXAMPLE: <FORCEJOB DSN="z/OS.FLD" FOLDER_NAME="fld1" JOB="Job3" ODATE="DATE"/>

Control‑M for z/OS

ORDER JOB consists of the FOLDER, NAME, and LIBRARY sub-parameters. The value of DSN is the Folder Library name, which must be specified for z/OS jobs.

Sub-parameters

Folder

Name of the job folder

Length

1 through 20 characters

Invalid Characters

Blanks; single quotation marks

OS/900: Non-English characters

Job Name

Job name. If this field is blank, all jobs in the specified folder are forced.

Length

• Computers other than z/OS: 1 through 64 characters.
• z/OS: 1 through 8 characters.

Invalid Characters

Blanks (embedded); single quotation marks

Date

Value to be used as the original scheduling date for the job. Valid values are:

ODAT

Resolves to the original scheduling date of the job resulting in the execution of this parameter (default).

NOTE: As of Control-M/Server version 6.1.03, ODAT can also be specified when modifying details of a job in the Active Jobs database.

date

A date reference, 4 or 6 characters long (either mmdd, ddmm, yymmdd, or yyddmm format, depending on the site standard).
z/OS: Only the yymmdd or yyddmm format can be used