Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

1.1 Beginning with the Basics
This last feature allows you to define different accounting, production or sales
cycles that impact your operations workload. Using other criteria keywords,
Unicenter CA-Scheduler allows you to refer to these important days in your
selection criteria. For added flexibility, Unicenter CA-Scheduler allows you to
define up to 20 different kinds of cycles in each datetable, for endless numbers
of datetables. Just specify which datetable the criteria statements refer to when
you define schedules.
The criteria language tells Unicenter CA-Scheduler more than just what days
jobs run: it also shows when jobs must run in a special order. To indicate job
sequences, you define predecessors for jobs. These are events that have to occur
before that job can begin. Since you define job sequences along with selection
criteria, both schedules and jobs can have predecessors:
Schedule's Criteria Job's Criteria When A Job Can Run
JOBA
After JOBA on the days
JOBA runs
MON JOBA After JOBA runs on
Mondays
WEEK-DAY AND
SCHEDA
When schedule SCHEDA
finishes on weekdays
The types of events that can be defined as predecessors include waiting:
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For a specific job to start or finish
Until all jobs in a schedule end successfully
For a specific output data set to close
Before Unicenter CA-Scheduler can begin automating your production
workload, those jobs need to be defined in the Unicenter CA-Scheduler
database. Online, menu-driven panels prompt you for the scheduling
information that Unicenter CA-Scheduler stores in its database. After the
database has been created, Unicenter CA-Scheduler can begin to automate
your production workload.
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