Confirmation calendar

Indicates the name of a Control-M calendar that is used to validate scheduling dates. A shift value can be used to indicate how to handle jobs that are scheduled for a non-working day in the calendar. The Calendar specified for Confirmation calendar must be a regular Calendar (not a periodic calendar). This calendar is used for validating scheduling dates and determining the scheduled work day.

Jobs to be scheduled on a given day are checked against the Confirmation calendar:

• If the day is a working day in the Confirmation calendar, the job is scheduled on that day. (This day is referred to as the original scheduling date.)
• If the day is not a working day in the Confirmation calendar, the Exception policy parameter is checked. Depending on the Shift value, the job may be scheduled on an earlier day, a later day, on the original scheduling date, or it may be cancelled.

  If the job’s scheduling criteria also include the day to which it is shifted, it runs only once on that date (not once for regular scheduling, and once to make up for the shifted day).

  NOTE:

  • If no Confirmation calendar is specified, no value can be specified for the Exception policy subparameter, and this field has no effect on job scheduling.
  • The Confirmation calendar parameter cannot be specified together with the DATES parameter.
  • For z/OS jobs: The Confirmation Calendar parameter cannot be specified together with the Partition data set and Minimum number of tracks parameters. The Shift Value is always applied if specified.

  Additional information	Description
  Usage	Optional
  Length	Valid calendar name, up to 30 characters in length. z/OS: 1-8 characters
  Case Sensitive	Yes
  Invalid Characters	Blanks z/OS: Non-English characters Computers other than z/OS: Single quotation marks
  Variable Name	None
  Alternate names	Control‑M/EM Utilities: CONFCAL Control-M Report: CONF_CAL Control-M/Server Utilities: -confcal Control‑M for z/OS: CONFCAL Control-M/EM API: conf_cal