Using Extended Job Fields › Script Best Practices

Script Best Practices

Design a command script to generate the jobs when creating or modifying many jobs. The following list provides script best practices for specifying extended field lengths.

• You can create the script from the beginning.
• You can use the SCRIPT JOB command to script existing jobs and then edit the result to meet your needs. The output from the SCRIPT JOB command is designed to recreate jobs, so it uses the CREATE command exclusively.
• If you want to copy or modify jobs in the scripted database, change the CREATE command to COPY or MODIFY commands with other required edits.