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Initial Date/Time Options

AT hh:mm:ss

Specifies the time of day at which the EXEC is to initiate. If you do not specify AT nor FROMTIME is specified, the time of day defaults to a site-specified delay interval from the moment the command is issued. See Start Times for more information about when requests are scheduled to start.

FROMTIME hh:mm:ss

Specifies the time of day at which the EXEC is to initiate. Use FROMTIME with TO to specify a time period that spans midnight. See Start Times for more information about when requests are scheduled to start.

FROM mm/dd/yy

Specifies the date of the first (or only) EXEC initiation. If you do not specify the FROM option, the first initiation defaults to the current date, unless you specify that initiation is to occur on certain days of the week, or if the specified time has passed for the current day.

Note: All dates that you specify with the FROM option must contain a month and a day. If you omit the year, the default is the current year. The latest date that you can specify is December 31, 2041. Year ranges from 00 through 41 are taken to be in the 21st century.

FROM dayname

Specifies the day of the first (or only) EXEC initiation. If dayname is today, the server schedules the request to run a week from today. If you do not specify the FROM option, the first initiation defaults to the current date, unless you specify that initiation is to occur on certain days of the week, or if the specified time has passed for the current day.

FROM "From options"

Schedules the first or only initiation of a request on a given day, or week of a particular week, month, or quarter. From options are the same as the FROM option on the CHANGE and SCHEDULE commands.

WITHIN {hh:mm:ss | *}

Specifies the amount of time that the server keeps trying to start the request, if it cannot start at the scheduled time. If the EXEC does not start within this amount of time, it is skipped. Your site can define the default initiation time limit. If you specify *, the WITHIN time is unlimited; your request has to run.

[ON day[-day]]...

Specifies the day of the week on which the EXEC is scheduled to execute. Valid day values are MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI, SAT, and SUN. The initial run date is calculated to fall on the next occurrence of day. When you use this option with the DURING option, CA VM:Schedule repeats the EXEC on the requested day or days during the specified period.

EXECs scheduled for a specific day cannot be repeated using the AGAIN DAILY or AGAIN MONTHEND options; however, you can specify any other AGAIN scheduling intervals. You can use ON with FOR as a repeat factor.

You can specify the ON option multiple times, for example, on mon on wed on fri.

You can use a dash to specify a range of days, for example, mon-fri, sat-sun.