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How a Job or Jobset Qualifies for Selection During Autoscan

To determine whether a jobset (and job) qualifies for automatic inclusion in today’s workload, autoscan examines several operand values in the following sequence:

1. Auto selection—Is the jobset or job eligible for automatic selection? Typically, jobs and jobsets that run on a regular schedule use calendars and have the auto selection operand set to YES. If the auto selection operand is set to NO, the jobset or job is ignored and no further evaluation is performed.
2. Effective date and expiration date—Has the effective date in the jobset or job profile been reached? Is the expiration date in the jobset or job profile still in the future?
3. Skip count—Has the workload administrator indicated that this jobset or job should be skipped? The workload administrator would specify a positive integer for the Skip box of the jobset or job to be skipped. When the autoscan encounters a jobset or job with a non‑zero skip count, it automatically ignores that jobset or job and decreases the skip count. When the skip count is again zero, either because the workload administrator explicitly set it to zero or because the jobset or job has been “skipped” the necessary number of times, the jobset or job again becomes eligible for automatic selection.
4. Calendars—Does the calendar named by the calendar operand in the jobset or job profile indicate that today is a workday? Jobsets and the jobs subordinate to them, whose calendars indicate that today is a workday, are automatically brought into the tracking file during autoscan. The CA NSM JM Option uses only the date information provided by a calendar and ignores any time information. The CA NSM JM Option gets the early start time from the job or jobset profile.