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Line-Mode Examples

You run a help service for your data center. Users send CMS notes containing their questions to your reader. You read the notes and send the users answers. But this afternoon you will be out of the office and Johann will take over for you. You have an EXEC called TRANSHLP that checks your reader and sends any notes to user ID JOHANN. Now you need to schedule the EXEC. You name the job TRANSJ, and run it in an EXEC called TRANSHLP JOHANN.

• To check your reader every 15 minutes between 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., enter the following command:

  vmsched schedule transj transhlp johann (at 13:00:00 to 18:00:00 every 00:15:00
  

• To check your reader every hour between 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., enter the following command:

  vmsched schedule transj transhlp johann (at 13:00:00 to 18:00:00 again hourly
  

• To check every hour and a quarter between 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., enter the following command:

  vmsched schedule transj transhlp johann (at 13:00:00 to 18:00:00 every 01:15:00
  

• You need to run the UTILREPT job, which produces a system utilization report, every 15 minutes during your system’s off peak hours, 5 p.m. to 6 a.m. To schedule this job, enter the following command:

  vmsched schedule utilrept util (every 00:15:00 fromtime 17:00:00 totime 06:00:00