Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

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6.1 Commonly Asked Questions 6.1.1.3 Should I Use Datetables or Calendars? Datetables and calendars are two different methods used to select schedules and jobs for a specific day. Datetables provide significantly more flexibility than calendars and should be used if at all possible. They are a bit more complicated to understand, but entail less maintenance than calendars when going from year to year. Datetables also allow multiple accounting periods as well as different holidays. One area where you will want to use Calendars is when the schedule has to run according to a set of dates that follows no pattern. Define these individual days once in a calendar. Then when any schedule runs on those dates, you give it that calendar name for selection. For most of your application needs, however, use datetables. A detailed discussion on this matter appears in the chapter "Criteria Language." 6.1.1.4 When Should I Define a New Datetable Versus a New Cycle in an Existing Datetable? Keep in mind that a cycle can be an accounting, production, or sales period. You can have up to twenty cycles defined with any one datetable, and any number of datetables. The datetable prefixed by the letter A is your default production datetable. The other prefixes are variations upon that datetable. Any time you want to schedule a job based on a combination of two or more cycles, you must use the datetable prefix; you cannot use different datetable names. 6.1.2 Maintaining the Database Commonly asked questions concerning maintaining the database follow. 6.1.2.1 How Should I Organize My Schedules? A schedule should consist of a group of logically related jobs. This group of jobs usually belongs to one application, but could also be run at the same frequency. For example, you could define a Payroll schedule containing all the payroll jobs and its selection criteria. If certain jobs in the schedule do not run every time the schedule is selected, define the selection criteria for the exceptional jobs. Or the daily Accounts Receivable jobs could be contained in one schedule and the weekly Accounts Receivable jobs could be in another. Possibly, the weekly schedule is dependent on the daily schedule to complete. Do not organize schedules just by frequency. For example, do not have a Monday schedule. There should not be one schedule just for requested jobs, either, unless it is easily manageable. Instead, try to keep application-related jobs together. This makes interdependencies within applications much clearer. 6-4 Unicenter CA-Scheduler User Guide
6.1 Commonly Asked Questions Keep in mind, most options defined for a schedule apply to all jobs in that schedule. You can, however, override these options at the job level. Try to keep schedules small (around 50 jobs) so they are easily managed. This is particularly important when a schedule gets backlogged or when scrolling through jobs displayed on Online Status panels. 6.1.2.2 Is There a Fast Way to Add Data to the Database? If you have a lot of information to add, you should always analyze whether it would be best to do it in a batch mode. You would use a full-panel editor to format the data and then run it through the Unicenter CA-Scheduler batch utility (CAJUTIL0). You can take a shortcut when using the Online Database Maintenance facility. Each time you enter a panel of data, Unicenter CA-Scheduler translates this into a batch command with appropriate keywords, which invokes the batch utility program and processes the command. Once the command is processed, it is redisplayed in its batch format at the top of the panel in an input command area. The panel on which this is displayed is called the SCHDUTIL Output panel. The SCHDUTIL Output panel will also contain any messages associated with the command just processed and currently displayed. Messages can confirm that the database has been updated or that a command contains specific errors. The shortcut allows you to overtype any part of the batch command displayed on the SCHUTIL Output panel. Once the batch command is displayed, you can change part of the command, press Enter, and the new command will be processed. You can use this technique to: ■ ■ Correct errors Add a similar job or schedule to the database To reduce the possibility of destructive errors, this feature does not permit you to alter or delete multiple records. 6.1.2.3 When Should a Job Be Staged? Staging a job means that at autoscan time or whenever the job is manually run with the RUN command, the job's JCL is moved from the master JCL file (LIBTYPE field) to the Unicenter CA-Scheduler staging library. This LIBTYPE will default to the one that appears in the LIBTYPE installation option of the CAIJGEN macro, but can be overridden at the schedule level and again at the job level. A job should only be staged if its JCL needs to be changed before it runs or if it has control statements that need to be changed or added. Chapter 6. Tips 6-5
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