Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

6.1 Commonly Asked Questions
To have a job's JCL staged, you must make the STAGE JCL field be YES on the
Job Definition panel for station 40 and either:
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Define an EARLIEST START TIME that gives users enough time to change
the JCL or
Define the same job to station 39 (the staging station)
Using the first method does not guarantee that the staged JCL will be ready to
run before Unicenter CA-Scheduler submits it. A job's EARLIEST START
TIME may arrive before its JCL has been modified in preparation for
submission.
To ensure that a user at the JCL setup station has enough time to modify and
review the staged JCL, use the second alternative mentioned preceding. The
job defined at station 39 will be an implicit predecessor of the CPU job at
station 40 which means the CPU job cannot be submitted until the job at
station 39 has been manually marked as ENDED using the COMPLETE
command.
You could, for example, have a daily job that only needs to have its JCL or a
control statement changed on Fridays. Therefore, you only want to change the
JCL on Fridays. You can accomplish this by allowing the CPU job (the one
assigned to station 40) to be selected DAILY and the staging job (the same job
name within the same schedule defined to station 39) to be selected FRI.
Notice that the job's JCL will always be staged, even though you only change
it on Fridays. Remember, the station 39 job has to be manually started or
AUTO START=YES must be specified in its definition. When the JCL has been
changed, you mark the job on station 39 completed with the COMPLETE
command.
A job's JCL can be staged (taken from the master JCL file as specified in the
LIBTYPE field and placed in the Unicenter CA-Scheduler staging file) even if
staging is not automatic. That is, regardless of whether you had STAGE=YES
or not, a fresh copy of the job's JCL will be restaged. Furthermore, you may
want to restage JCL for a job with STAGE=NO. This would be for purposes of
changing it due to a rerun condition. You use the RESTAGE operator
command to accomplish this. Keep in mind that it will overlay any JCL that
may already be in the staging file for the respective job.
Once the JCL is staged, you can use a variety of editor commands to prepare it
for submission. In addition to usual text editing, you can perform some
special functions within the editor:
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Expansion of Unicenter CA-Driver procedures embedded in the JCL
Display of current values of all Unicenter CA-Driver reserved-name
variable parameters in the JCL
Change of values of any Unicenter CA-Driver reserved-name variable
parameters in the JCL
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