Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

1.1 Beginning with the Basics
when you define jobs to Unicenter CA-Scheduler. Even if ARDAILY is a group
of jobs, you can still retain your familiar names. Because VSE sites run so
much production work, Unicenter CA-Scheduler has you group related jobs
together under one name, a schedule name.
Think of a schedule as a timetable: it tells Unicenter CA-Scheduler when
certain jobs run and which workstations they stop at. All jobs in the database
belong to some schedule.
Since you are allowed to have multiple schedules, you need to devise an
organized way of grouping jobs into schedules. Many sites group jobs by
application and frequency. If ARDAILY is one schedule, ARMNTHLY could be
another. When grouping jobs into schedules, keep in mind one thing: options
defined for a schedule apply to all jobs in that schedule which means you can
save time by defining options for an entire schedule, but you will always find
jobs that are exceptions. Unicenter CA-Scheduler allows you to override
schedule options by defining different values for the exceptional jobs: most
options defined at the job level override options set for a schedule.
Schedule Name When Jobs Run Job Names
ARDAILY
Most options defined for a
schedule apply to all the
jobs in that schedule.
ARMNTHLY
Override schedule options
with job options.
Every day
Each weekend and
each month end.
AR001
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AR014
ADDSTOCK
ADDSALES
AR030
ARMNTHLY Only each weekend. ARPAID
ARDUE
Since Unicenter CA-Scheduler does not want to change how you name jobs, it
organizes its database using a method that works for all sites.
Unicenter CA-Scheduler uniquely identifies a task by knowing four values:
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Job name
Job number
Workstation number
Schedule name
Four values are needed. First, job name alone usually is not enough to single
out every task performed at your site: too many applications have a JOB1 or
JOBA, but when job name is linked to schedule name, you come up with a
unique job ID. If you omit telling Unicenter CA-Scheduler the other two
values, workstation defaults to 40 and job number defaults to 01.
Chapter 1. Introduction 1-3