Creating a regular or relative calendar

This procedure describes how to create a 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 enables you 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, click Calendars.
2. Click New and then click Regular Calendar.

   The Calendar window appears.

3. In the Calendar Name field, type the name of the calendar.

   NOTE: For distributed systems this must not exceed 30 characters. For Mainframe, no lower case, but must not exceed 8 characters and no white spaces.

4. From the Control-M Server drop-down list, select the Control-M/Server or All.

   All refers to all Control-M Servers, both distributed and mainframe systems. The calendar name must adhere to the validation criteria of calendar name for both systems.

5. (Mainframe only) In the Alias field, add a valid calendar name.
6. In the Description field, describe details about the calendar.
7. (Control-M for z/OS only) In the Relative area, select alternate scheduling dates for the specified dates that are not scheduled in a calendar, as follows:
   • 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

   NOTE: 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.

8. Do one of the following:
   • In the calendar, select the days that you want the job to run.
   • Click Recurrence and from the Recurrence View Mode dialog box do the following:
     1. Select the Month days and/or Week days that you want the job to run.
     2. From the Apply on drop-down list, select the years that you want the Month Days and/or Week Days applied for the selected period.
     3. Click OK.
9. Click OK.

   The calendar is created and appears in the calendar table.

10. If you want to make the calendar available for scheduling, select the calendar and click Check in.
11. If the Control-M Server is set to All, under Synchronization State click the button.

    The Synchronization Status table appears which includes the list of Control-M Servers and their synchronization state, as described in Synchronization status parameters.

    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).