Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

5.5 Summing Up
5.5 Summing Up
Evaluate criteria statements twice: once to determine selection criteria and
again to identify predecessor conditions. When coding a job in the criteria
language, always qualify it with its schedule name. Use the SCD keyword
before a schedule name to identify it as such.
Selection
Predecessors
Calendars
Datetables
A job will only be evaluated for selection and eligible for
today's workload if its schedule is selected or eligible for
today's workload. A schedule is considered eligible for
selection if the only reason it was not selected is because it
was defined with AUTO SELECT=NO.
The NOT keyword only applies to selection.
Every job or schedule listed in a criteria statement is a
predecessor if it is also in or eligible to be in the day's
production. Whether those jobs or schedules are part of the
reason for selection does not matter.
Unicenter CA-Scheduler observes ORs used with all
keyword-defined predecessors except PRED, meaning
NJE,VSE, DSN, GDG, and GBLxnn.
A criteria statement like NOT JOBA defines JOBA as a
predecessor.
If jobs or schedules are predecessors, Unicenter CA-Scheduler
waits for them to complete unless you precede their names
with the keyword START.
Define daily, weekly, and monthly calendars for selecting
schedules and jobs. When using calendars, only the calendar
name determines selection.
Define three years' worth of datetables for each unique
datetable name. Each year being accessed must have a
datetable for the year before and after it.
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