Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

5.2 Calendar Mechanisms
5.2.2.3 Summary of Datetables
database. Also, define the corresponding datetables for the prior and next
years.
Datetables are broken into two categories: workday processing and accounting
period processing. If you need more than one holiday definition, you will
need another datetable.
The reserved words (keywords) for the Gregorian Calendar mechanism and
the keywords for the Datetable calendar mechanism can be used together.
Here are some examples of Gregorian or Datetable calendar mechanisms:
Example
(MON AND WDAY) OR
(TUE AND HDAY-1)
WDOW1
WDAY AND (MON OR
WED OR TT)
WDAY AND NOT FRI
BDAY AND NOT BDOM-1
WDAY AND WOY-1
MON AND (WWOM2 OR
WWOM4)
ADAY AND NOT HDAY
Interpretation
Select on Monday when Monday is not a
holiday, or select on Tuesday when Monday
is a holiday.
Select the first workday of every week. This
is the same as preceding except if Tuesday is
also a holiday, it will be selected on
Wednesday.
Select every Monday through Thursday
except on holidays.
This is the same as the preceding example,
only expressed more .
Select on every accounting day except for the
last accounting day of the period. This
references the datetable defined with prefix B.
Select every workday of the last week of the
year.
Select every Monday of the second and fourth
weeks of the month regardless of whether
Monday is a holiday.
Select on every accounting day that is not a
holiday. Notice that an accounting day may
be a holiday (this is not normally the case).
5.2.2.4 Date Translation Table Report
Previously discussed were the Gregorian calendar and datetables. A way is
needed to see what conditions are met on any given day. The Date Translation
Table report is obtained by running the Unicenter CA-Scheduler Utility with
the REPORT DATETRAN transaction. You can request a specific date or
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