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Displaying the CPU Job Scheduling Screen

Now we learn how to schedule a job to run. The job runs Tuesdays and Thursdays by 9 p.m. or the next available processing day when Tuesday or Thursday is a holiday.

Return to the Data Base Maintenance Menu by typing DB on the top line of your current screen. When you press Enter, the menu is displayed again:

 ---------------------  CA-7 DATA BASE MAINTENANCE MENU  ----------------------
 FUNCTION ===>

 DATA BASE DEFINITION FOR:

    1 - CPU JOB
        A - CROSS PLATFORM (XPS) JOB DEFINITION
    2 - SCHEDULING
    3 - JOB PREDECESSOR/SUCCESSOR
    4 - WORKLOAD DOCUMENTATION
    5 - INPUT/OUTPUT NETWORK
    6 - DATA SET

 OTHER FUNCTIONS AVAILABLE:
    7 - JCL LIBRARY MAINTENANCE
    8 - TEXT EDITOR
    9 - CLEAR THE TEXT EDITOR ACTIVE AREA
                  ACTIVE AREA NOW CONTAINS 0000 LINES OF TEXT




 PROGRAM: SDM0   MSG-INDX: 00   -- DB       --   yy.ddd / hh:mm:ss
 MESSAGE: SPECIFY DESIRED OPTION OR ENTER A COMMAND ON THE TOP LINE

Now, we want to go to the scheduling screens. Enter 2 in the FUNCTION field, and press Enter.

The Scheduling Menu is displayed:

 ---------------------------  CA-7 SCHEDULING MENU  ----------------------------
 FUNCTION ===>


 DATE/TIME SCHEDULING FOR:
    1 - CPU JOB
    2 - INPUT NETWORK
    3 - OUTPUT NETWORK

 TRIGGER SCHEDULING FOR:
    4 - JOB TRIGGERING OTHER CPU JOB(S)
    5 - INPUT NETWORK TRIGGERING CPU JOB(S)
    6 - DATA SET TRIGGERING CPU JOB(S)

 OTHER FUNCTIONS AVAILABLE:
    7 - MODIFICATION TO RESOLVED SCHEDULE DATES
    8 - BASE CALENDAR MAINTENANCE



 PROGRAM: SM70   MSG-INDX: 00   -- DB.2     --   yy.ddd / hh:mm:ss
 MESSAGE: ENTER OPTION, TRANSFER OR ENTER A COMMAND ON THE TOP LINE

To select scheduling for the CPU jobs, enter 1 in the FUNCTION field.

When you press Enter, the CPU Job Scheduling screen is displayed:

 -------------------------  CA-7 CPU JOB SCHEDULING  ---------------------------
 FUNCTION:           (CLEAR,DELETE,EDIT,FE,FETCH,REPL,RESOLV,SAVE)

 JOB:


 SCAL:      (DEFAULT SCAL ID FOR ADDS)




 SCHID-COUNT: 000








 PROGRAM: SM71   MSG-INDX: 00   -- DB.2.1   --   yy.ddd / hh:mm:ss
 MESSAGE: ENTER FUNCTION, TRANSFER OR ENTER A COMMAND ON THE TOP LINE

We use this screen to tell CA Workload Automation SE what job we are scheduling and what calendar it is based on. To provide this information, fill in the following fields on this screen:

FUNCTION:

Enter EDIT to define scheduling information.

JOB:

Enter NAMEA to identify the job.

SCAL:

Give the two-character name of a calendar that has been defined in your shop. The rest of the illustrations in this book are based on calendar 5D. If 5D is not defined in your shop for the current year, you can use another calendar. (You can get this information from the calendars you listed when you selected a calendar.)

More information:

Selecting a Calendar