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Cyclic Job Submission

The CA NSM JM Option supports cyclic job submission, which allows a job to be submitted multiple times during a particular time period. For example, if you have a job that needs to run every hour between 8:00 a.m. and midnight, you can define the job as cyclic and specify the frequency (how often it should run) and the number of iterations (how many times it should run). Cyclic job submission is much easier than defining 17 jobs, one for every hour between 8:00 a.m. and midnight. It also simplifies maintenance because you need only change a value once to alter the cycles, frequency, or number of iterations.

Note: You should define cyclic jobs as ineligible for backlogging to ensure that the job is purged from the tracking file at the next new-day autoscan.