Defining Jobs › Adding a Job

Adding a Job

We start by defining a job with the following characteristics:

• The job name is your name followed by the letter A.
• The job is assigned to a system named PRIMER.
• The job is not submitted or executed on the CPU.
• The job does not send prompting messages to the operator when it is going to be late.

Use the following fields on the CPU Job Definition screen for defining this information to CA Workload Automation SE:

FUNCTION:

Enter ADD.

JOB:

Give the name of the job. Use the first seven letters of your name followed by the letter A. We use the job name NAMEA in the rest of this book, but it is important to use your own name instead of the letters NAME. This method lets everyone who performs the exercises in this book have a unique set of jobs. If two people in your shop have the same name, add an initial so that each name is unique.

SYSTEM:

Enter PRIMER.

EXEC:

Enter N to indicate that this job should not execute. If you leave this field blank, it defaults to Y.

PROMPTS:

Enter N to indicate that prompting messages are not sent if the job is late. If you leave this field blank, it defaults to Y.

Leave the rest of the fields blank.

When you have entered this information in your screen, press Enter. Your screen now looks like the following example, with the ADD SUCCESSFUL message at the bottom of the screen.

 -------------------------  CA-7 CPU JOB DEFINITION  --------------------------
 FUNCTION:           (ADD,DELETE,DD,PURGE,DELPRRN,FORMAT,LIST,UPD)
 JOB: NAMEA
 GENERAL:      SYSTEM: PRIMER    JOBNET:           OWNER:           UID: 0

 JCL:          ID: 0    MEMBER: NAMEA     RELOAD: N  EXEC: N  RETAIN-JCL: N
               LIB:
 REQUIREMENTS: HOLD: N  JCL-OVRD: N  USE-OVRD-LIB: N  VERIFY: N  MAINT: N
               SATISFACTION LEAD-TIME:  JOB: 0   DSN: 0   ARFSET:

 EXECUTION:    MAINID: ALL   INSERT-RMS: N  COND-CODE: 0     RO: 0
               DONT SCHEDULE -- BEFORE: 00000 0000  AFTER: 99999 0000

 MESSAGES:     LTERM:           REQUIREMENT-LIST: Y  PROMPTS: N
               ERROR MSGS -- RQMTS NOT USED: Y  DSN NOT FOUND: Y

 RESOURCES:    REGION: 0     CLOCK-TIME: 0000  CPU-TIME: 00000
               CLASS:    PRTY: 000   MSGCLASS:     DRCLASS:
               TAPE DRIVES...TYPE1: 000 M 000 C   TYPE2: 000 M 000 C

 PROGRAM: SM20   MSG-INDX: 00   -- DB.1     --   yy.ddd / hh:mm:ss
 MESSAGE: ADD SUCCESSFUL

Compare your screen with this picture to verify that you have filled in the values correctly (especially N in the EXEC field).

CA Workload Automation SE automatically fills in many of the other fields for you with default values. Defaults are the values that the product assumes that you want unless you specify something different. For example, it assumes that the member name of the JCL is the same as the job name and automatically fills in the MEMBER field with the job name. For more information about these default values, see the description of the CPU Job Definition screen in the Database Maintenance Guide.

Note: The default values filled in on your screen are different from the default values shown here if a default job record has been customized at your shop. These differences do not affect the exercises in this book.