Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

3.9 Defining Jobs
3.9.3.3 When Will Jobs Actually Run?
when it ordinarily would be selected in autoscan. For example, suppose
that only once you want to omit a job that normally runs on Friday.
Specify SKIP = 1 and Unicenter CA-Scheduler will "forget" only that job
this Friday (not its successors). Each autoscan time when Unicenter
CA-Scheduler skips over a job it normally would have selected, it
decrements the value in the SKIP field by one until SKIP once again is
zero. Then selection for this job resumes normally. This advanced
technique is only used under exceptional conditions. Usually, SKIP = 0.
As Unicenter CA-Scheduler selects the day's workload, it organizes the work,
grouping each schedule's jobs together. This ordering reflects the sequence in
which Unicenter CA-Scheduler evaluates jobs for submission. It also
approximates the order in which jobs run.
It does not line schedules up in the order they are selected. Instead, Unicenter
CA-Scheduler allows you to control that order using schedule options. Those
options are described in the topic When Will A Schedule's Jobs Actually Run?
While Unicenter CA-Scheduler is organizing the workload, it also prioritizes
the jobs selected from each schedule. Unicenter CA-Scheduler allows you to
control the sequence of jobs within a schedule using the following job
parameters:
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JCR predecessors
USE SIMTIME
JRC start times
EARLIEST START TIME
JRC DEADLINE TIMEs
COMPLETION DEADLINE TIME
JOB PRIORITY
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