Selecting a Calendar

Calendars tell CA Workload Automation SE which days are normal processing days and which days are nonprocessing days (weekends or holidays). Your CA Workload Automation SE administrator or systems programmer define them to reflect the normal processing days and holidays in your shop. (Some sample calendars are also provided with CA Workload Automation SE.)

To see the calendars in your shop, enter this command on the top line of any CA Workload Automation SE screen:

/DISPLAY, FM=SCAL

When you press Enter, the screen lists all of your calendars:

/DISPLAY,FM=SCAL *** FMTBLK DISPLAY *** PAGE 0001 ENTRY USE STRGE FLAG ----LOADS---- NAME POINT TTR CNT REQRD 0 TOTAL ACTUAL STATUS SCAL13PE 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL13WD 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL13WE 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL1303 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL135D 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL135R 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL137D 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL137R 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL14PE 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL14WD 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL14WE 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL1403 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL145D 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL145R 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL147D 000000 E2C300 000 000000 21 000000 000000 RELINK, SCAL147R 000000 E2C300 000 000000 A1 000000 000000 RELINK,

To complete the exercises in this book, use a calendar that defines weekdays as normal processing days and has at least one holiday. To see the processing days and holidays that are defined on each of your calendars, enter this command on the top line of any screen:

PRINT,YEAR=yy,SCAL=xx

yy: Indicates the year that the fifth and sixth characters identify.
xx: Indicates the last two characters in the calendar name.

For example, we are going to use SCAL145D to schedule the jobs in this book. To see the way that this calendar is defined, enter this command on your screen:

PRINT,YEAR=14,SCAL=5D

Enter this command on your screen now. Substitute the year and name of one of your calendars for 14 and 5D, if you do not have a calendar named SCAL145D.

When you press Enter, you see the first month of the calendar you specified. For example, here is January on the SCAL145D calendar:

PAGE NO. 0001 ******************************************************************************* * CA-7 BASE CALENDAR SCAL145D * * YEAR 2014 GEN DATE yy.ddd * * SCHD DAY ONLY = N * ******************************************************************************* ** MONTH 01 JAN ** ** SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT ** ** (B01) 02 03 * ** 06 07 08 09 10 * ** 13 14 15 16 17 * ** 20 21 22 23 24 * ** 27 28 29 30 .E01. * *******************************************************************************

If the displayed year is a leap year, a note to that effect is shown in the flower box before listing the days.

Only the processing days (workdays) are displayed. In this case, they are every weekday except January 1 which was defined as a holiday on SCAL145D. In addition, the first and last days of January are identified:

The characters B01 in place of 01 identify the first day of the first month. Because this day is a nonprocessing day, the characters are enclosed in parentheses.
The characters E01 in place of 31 identify the last day of the first month. Because this day is a processing day, the characters are enclosed in periods.

To scroll forward to the next month, press Enter. The February SCAL145D calendar looks like the following example:

PAGE NO. 0002 ****************************************************************************** * CA-7 BASE CALENDAR SCAL145D * * YEAR 2014 GEN DATE yy.ddd * * SCHD DAY ONLY = N * ******************************************************************************* ** MONTH 02 FEB ** ** SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT ** ** (B02) * ** 03 04 05 06 07 * ** 10 11 12 13 14 * ** 18 19 20 21 * ** 24 25 26 27 .E02. * *******************************************************************************

Because February 17 is a holiday on this calendar, it is not displayed.

Keep scrolling through as many months as you want to see. You can stop at any point and can go on to the next exercise.