A special processing period is a period of processing between two special days, such as a fiscal month, with special significance to your installation. To define a special period, you define two special days with the same name, representing the length of the special period.
Special processing periods can occur at regular intervals, such as a fiscal year or 4-5-4 period, or at irregular intervals, such as a trading period. One trading period, for example, can start three weeks after the beginning of the previous trading period and five weeks before the beginning of the next.
Individual users or groups of users can have their own set of special processing periods. A single calendar can contain multiple special processing periods.
After you define a special period, you can use it in scheduling criteria.
For example, the Accounting department considers the period from September 1 to August 31 as its fiscal year. You can define a special processing period in a calendar and call that period FISCAL_YEAR. You can perform special processing during that period by referencing FISCAL_YEAR when setting up scheduling criteria for the processing.
If you want to schedule a job on the last workday of each 4-5-4 period, specify the following run frequency in the job definition:
LAST WORKDAY OF PERIOD454
If you want to schedule a job on the first workday of the current 4-5-4 period, specify the following run frequency in the job definition:
1ST WORKDAY OF THIS PERIOD454
If you want to schedule a job on the last workday of the second week of each 4-5-4 period, specify the following run frequency in the job definition:
LAST WORKDAY OF THE 2ND WEEK OF PERIOD454
You do not need to know the day of the week or the date to which each statement refers. The server calculates it.
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