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Repeating a Request Using Time and Date Ranges

You can schedule a request to run inside or outside a general time period like weekends, holidays, day, or night. These time periods are called shifts and ranges. Shifts define time periods, such as daily work shifts. Ranges usually define date ranges, but they can define time periods too. Your system administrator sets up shifts and ranges. To find out which shifts and ranges you can use, enter vmsched config and see the lines starting SHIFT and RANGE.

You can complete the following tasks with this feature

• Keep daily administrative requests, like your things-to-do list EXEC, from running on weekends and holidays
• Make sure that work that uses many system resources, such as database reports, runs at night.