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Line-Mode Examples

You work on a project to track the resources used by user IDs set up for temporary employees. You have an EXEC called TEMPUSE to check this. Because your department is charged for the system resources it uses, you do not want to run the report when no one is at work. Your office is open on weekends, but on a few days of the year, like Thanksgiving and Christmas, it shuts down.

• To check your system’s name for these days, enter the following command:

  vmsched config
  

  CA VM:Schedule displays the contents of the VMSCHED CONFIG file. The lines you need to check look like this:

  RANGE ‘HOLIDAY’ IS BETWEEN 11/26/yy 00:00:00 AND 11/26/yy 23:59:59
  RANGE ‘HOLIDAY’ IS BETWEEN 11/27/yy 00:00:00 AND 11/27/yy 23:59:59
  RANGE ‘HOLIDAY’ IS BETWEEN 12/25/yy 00:00:00 AND 12/25/yy 23:59:5
  

• To schedule the TEMPUSE EXEC to run on all days except those in the range named HOLIDAY, enter the following command:

  vmsched schedule tempuse tempuse (at 08:00:00 every 04:00:00 to 20:00:00 again daily outside holiday
  

You have another EXEC, THANKS, that sends a message to the skeleton staff that volunteers to work on holidays.

To schedule it to run only on holidays, enter the following command:

vmsched schedule thanks thanks (at 10:00:00 again daily inside holiday

You need to send hourly reminders to your third shift operations staff to check spool space. The THIRD shift is defined as 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. every day.

To schedule a request to send the reminders, enter the following command:

vmsched schedule remind remind (again hourly inside third

Note: If you specify an OUTSIDE shift or range without using an AT time or FROM date, CA VM:Schedule uses as the default the first available time and day not included in the specified shift or range. If you specify an INSIDE shift or range without using an AT time or FROM date, CA VM:Schedule uses as the default the first available time and day within the specified shift or range.