Creating a regular or relative calendar

This procedure describes how to create a regular calendar, which is a pre-defined calendar based on the days of the month and/or the days of the week. You can also create a relative calendar (only for z/OS), which is a way to schedule closest scheduled dates in the calendar to the marked dates on the relative calendar.

To create a regular or relative calendar:

1. From the Tools domain, in the Planning area, select Calendars.
2. From the Calendar menu, select New > Regular Calendar.

   The calendar properties pane appears on the right.

3. Do the following:
   • In the Calendar Name field, type the name of the calendar.
   • From the Control-M Server drop-down list, select the Control-M/Server where the calendar is synchronized.

     If you select a z/OS Control-M/Server, you can select the relative option.

   • In the Description field, describe details about the calendar.
   • In the Relative area, select alternate scheduling dates for the specified dates that are not scheduled in a calendar, as follows (Control-M for z/OS only):
     • If you want the job to run after the scheduled date, click +.
     • If you want the job run before the scheduled date, click -.
     • If you want to clear relative dates, click

   For specified dates that are scheduled in the calendar, the scheduled dates remains. You can use Relative calendars to combine calendars through the Control‑M IOABLCAL utility. For more information, see the Control-M for z/OS User Guide.

4. Do one of the following:
   • In the calendar, select the days that you want the job to run.
   • Select Recurrence and do the following:
     1. Select the days of the month and /or the days of the week that you want the job to run.
     2. From the Apply on drop-down list, select the years that you want the selected month days and week days applied to.
     3. Click OK.
5. Click OK.

   The calendar is created and appears in the calendar table.

6. If you want to make the calendar available for scheduling, select the calendar and click Check in.

   The calendar synchronizes in the Definitions database. If your synchronization setting is set to No Synchronization, (see Configuring Control-M/Server synchronization), you can upload the calendar to Control-M/Server by clicking Upload drop-down list, and selecting Upload (to upload calendar to Control-M/Server) or Force Upload (same as Upload, but override changes).