Advanced Scheduling Techniques › Retrying Requests That Cannot Run on Time (WITHIN)

Retrying Requests That Cannot Run on Time (WITHIN)

You can override the default time period (WITHIN time) for how long the server continues retrying a request that cannot run at the time you specified with AT or FROMTIME. You cannot change the retry time interval.

Sometimes the server cannot start a request at the scheduled time because you are logged on, the system is down, or request processing that stopped temporarily. The server keeps trying to run the request at regular intervals for the period of time defined as the default.

To find out the default value, enter vmsched config and see the line starting DEFAULT LATE INITIATION TIME LIMIT.

You can complete the following tasks with this feature:

• Keep the server from continuing to interrupt your work to ask you to log off so a noncritical request can run
• Make sure that an important report processes as soon as possible after its regular start time, if the system was down at that time.