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Line-Mode Examples

You work in accounting. One of your responsibilities is to run the CUSTBILL EXEC that prepares customer billings. Your company’s billing cycle is 4 weeks, that is, 28 days instead of a full month. You name the job you want to run CUSTBILL.

• To schedule CUSTBILL EXEC to run every 28 days at 5:00 p.m., enter the following command:

  vmsched schedule custbill custbill (at 05:00:00 from 01/01/yy again 28 days
  

• To run the CUSTBILL EXEC at a different interval, enter one of the following commands instead:
  • Every business day:

    vmsched schedule custbill custbill (at 05:00:00 from 01/01/yy again bdaily
    

  • Every 10 business days:

    vmsched schedule custbill custbill (at 05:00:00 from 01/01/yy again 10 bdays
    

  • Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday:

    vmsched schedule custbill custbill (at 05:00:00 from 01/01/yy on mon on wed on fri again weekly
    

  • Every day of the week but Sunday:

    vmsched schedule custbill custbill (at 05:00:00 from 01/01/yy on mon-sat again weekly