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Schedule Event Exits

You can specify an exit process for the following conditions:

• All the specified file transfers for the schedule have started

  Important! A transfer restart is counted as a normal start.

• All the specified file transfers for this schedule have successfully completed
• A specified file transfer for this schedule has failed

The exit process is executed when the condition is met. For example, you can take some action and set the schedule as COMPLETED rather than wait for the End of Processing period. You can use the STARTNCL macro to start the following API to force completion:

$RFCALL ACTION=FORCEEND NAME=schedule-name

Another example is to use the SHDCALL macro to send a command to CA 7 WA to submit a job at the completion of the schedule.

For Transfer Failures, the specified process is executed for every transfer failure until the number of successful transfers has reached the expected transfer count.

Variables Available for the Failure Process

In addition to the schedule knowledge base variables, the following variables are available to the transfer failure event process:

Add Extra Fields

You may need to associate schedule specific information that cannot be currently accommodated with the SCHEDULE Owner Details panel. You can specify up to 16 extra fields (of 70 characters each). The additional details are available through knowledge base variables &ZRMDBADDET1 to &ZRMDBADDET16.

Schedule Resource Definition List

File Transfer schedules do not support the definitions of relationships with other resources. Use one of the various File Transfer Schedule exits to establish dependencies.

FTSCHD - Schedule File Specifications

The Schedule Recovery is optional; the default is YES (Schedule Recovery ON). The schedule file (FTSCHD) is required even if Schedule Recovery is set to NO.

Automation Table Controls

To reduce virtual storage use with a large number of schedules, you can set the Transient Log Table Size to zero. If the Transient Log Limit in AUTOTABLES is set to 0, then NO transient logs are allocated for any resource.

Note: If the Transient Log Limit in AUTOTABLES is set to a value greater than 0, individual resource definition can be changed dynamically to a lesser value (including 0).

Specify Event Exits

To specify event exits for a file transfer schedule

1. Enter /RADMIN.R at the command prompt.

   The ResourceView : Resource Definition panel appears.

2. Enter S beside the FTSCHD file transfer schedule resource class.

   The File Transfer Schedule List appears.

3. Enter U beside the schedule to which you want add exits.

   The Panel Display List appears.

4. Enter 5 at the Command prompt.

   The Event Exits panel appears.

5. Enter ? in the Process field for the event condition.

   The Automation Services : Process List panel appears with a list of processes.

6. Enter S beside the required process.

   You are returned to the Event Exits panel with the name of the process.

   Note: If the process requires parameters, apply the P action.

7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for each event condition for which you want to specify an exit. After you specify your exits, press F4 (Save).

   The schedule is saved with the event exits.