Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

5.2 Calendar Mechanisms
5.2.2.1 Workday Keywords
In other words, Unicenter CA-Scheduler is smart enough to know today's date,
but is not smart enough to automatically know your unique workdays,
holidays, and accounting periods.
With datetables, you can use the reserved words described for Gregorian
calendars, but you must define your holidays. This is done with a full panel
that actually displays a calendar one month at a time. You can use two types
of keywords with datetables: workday keywords and accounting-period
keywords.
Workday keywords are just what they say: keywords that relate to workdays.
Workdays are days that are not defined as holidays. For our purposes,
weekends are considered holidays (unless you specify otherwise). The
following is a sampling of these keywords:
Keyword
WDAY
HDAY
WDOW2
WDOW-1
WDOM-1
WDOM-3
WWOM2
RD01 = +1
RD17 = -2
HDAY1
HDAY-3
When Selected
All workdays
All holidays
Second workday of the week
Last workday of the week
Last workday of the month
Second-to-the-last workday of the month
Second work week of the month (any week with at least
one workday is counted as a work week)
First workday after the first day of any month
Two workdays prior to the 17th of any month
Current date plus one is a holiday
Current date minus three days was a holiday
5.2.2.2 Accounting-Period Keywords
Later, when how to define a datetable is described, you will see how to define:
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Accounting days
When an accounting period starts
When the accounting year ends
These accounting periods can be production cycles, sales cycles, or any other
unit of time. When you define a datetable, you have to define a prefix (any
letter, except E, H, N, P, or W, allowing for 21 different accounting periods)
while using the same datetable. Each accounting period has its own prefix. The
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