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Restricting a Job from Running on Special Days

You can restrict a job from running on certain days by using the /NOT_ON qualifier in conjunction with the job’s schedule interval. For example:

SCHEDULE> MODIFY JOBX /SD_RESTRICTION=(COMPANY_HOLIDAYS)/NOT_ON

This example instructs the manager not to run JOBX on company holidays.

The manager calculates the job’s next scheduled run time according to the job’s schedule interval and then checks against its Special Day Restrictions. If the job’s next scheduled run time falls on a restricted Special Day, the manager applies one of two user-specified Special Day Actions:

• Puts the job on hold
• Skips the scheduled run of the job and applies the schedule interval again to calculate a new next scheduled run time. This is done repeatedly until a day that satisfies the job’s Special Day Restrictions is found.

In both cases, if the job has OPCOM or NOTIFY set, the owner of the job and the operator are notified of the Special Day conflict and what Special Day Action was applied.