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

Example

You have an EXEC called CREDITS that runs monthly accounting reports. You name the job you want to run MONTHLY. When you schedule it, you want to make sure it runs even if the system goes down. Your system’s default time period for retrying a request is one hour. For extra security, schedule CREDITS with a retry time of four hours instead:

vmsched schedule monthly credits (at 20:00:00 within 04:00:00 from 01/31/yy again monthend

Note: The longest time you can specify WITHIN is 99 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds (99:59:59). If you specify WITHIN *, the within time is unlimited.