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Job Record

A Job Management Manager job is represented in the database by a job record. You create most of the job database information when you create, copy, or modify job characteristics, such as:

• Job name, group, type
• Primary command, prefunction, and postfunction
• Schedule interval and run times
• Job dependencies
• Message notification conditions
• Job restart conditions

The primary part of a job record is a Job Management Manager command, which is any valid system-level command you want to perform. To enter a command, you use the standard command format for the operating system that the command executes on. In the DCL interface, use quotes to enclose a case-sensitive command.

Any user can create a job record or copy a record to the Job Management Manager job database.

Note: The default location for files referenced in a Job Management Manager command is your SYS$LOGIN device and directory. You can specify a different device and directory as part of your file specification.

The following table documents the limit for text attributes in the job record: