Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

Chapter 5. Criteria Language
The criteria language consists of a criteria vocabulary and a set of calendar
mechanisms used to construct a reason, or set of reasons, for selecting a
schedule or job for execution and for establishing its predecessors.
For example, if SCHEDA is to run every Monday and every Thursday, the
selection criteria associated with this schedule is MON OR THU.
This example uses criteria vocabulary that refers to a processing period when
selecting a schedule. Several different types of processing periods can be used:
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Day of week (as preceding)
Week of month
Day in cycle
Week in cycle
Workday
Relative day
Accounting day of month
Holiday
Negative day of month (nn day from the end of a period)
Another condition that can cause selection of a schedule or job would be
another schedule or job being selected. For example, to select JOBB if JOBA
was selected, the criteria associated with JOBB is JOBA.
Previously, using the criteria vocabulary to select schedules or jobs was
discussed, but the criteria vocabulary is also used for defining predecessors.
Predecessors are conditions that have to be met before a schedule or job is
allowed to start. Other terms used for predecessor are prerequisite and
dependency.
Predecessors can be the starting or ending of other schedules or jobs, the
closing of an output data set, a nonscheduled VSE job, and other items like
these. Any predecessor can be defined as occurring on the day the schedule or
job is selected or as having occurred on a prior day. This will be discussed in
more detail later through the use of examples.
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