Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

Glossary
This glossary defines terms used in all volumes of
Unicenter CA-Scheduler's documentation, but
sometimes one new term leads to another. To help
you grasp these new ideas quickly, we have used
italics to highlight related terms worth
cross-referencing.
abend. Abnormal ending. An early termination of
a program due to an error.
accounting day. A day designated on a datetable as
part of a cyclic production, sales, or accounting
period.
accounting period. One or more accounting days.
accounting week. A week containing at least one
accounting day.
active. Schedules and jobs that are:
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Waiting at any workstation for predecessors,
start time, or defined resources
Waiting at a non-CPU station to be started
manually
Submitted, held, or started
Completed, interrupted, abended, or failed
The opposite of inactive.
array. A variable parameter with multiple values.
authority level. One of three different types of
access assigned to users using the TYPE field on a
user record. Each authority level places different
restrictions on what those Unicenter CA-Scheduler
users can do. See General, Supervisor, and Manager
authority levels.
authorized users. Users with General authority level
who are allowed to maintain and control a schedule
and its jobs because they are listed in the USERS
field on that schedule's base record. (Users with
Supervisor or Manager authority level do not
require specific authorization to maintain or control
schedules.)
autoscan. The automatic selection of a day's
workload. Unicenter CA-Scheduler scans the
database at a set time every day to determine the
workload for the next 24 hours.
autoscan day. The 24-hour period starting with
autoscan. Also called the production day.
AUTOTIME. The time when Unicenter
CA-Scheduler automatically scans its database for
workload selection. This defaults to midnight, but
may be modified with the AUTOTIM installation
option. Also called autoscan time.
available. Ready for processing by Unicenter
CA-Scheduler. A schedule is available (ready to
start) when its early start time has been reached and
all of its predecessors have been satisfied. A job is
available (ready to be submitted) when its schedule
has started, the job's early start time has been
reached, all the job's predecessors have been
satisfied, and the resources defined for that job are
available (not in use).
backlog. Work that was not completed one day
and was carried over to the next. References to a
backlogged schedule or job pertain to a previous
day's schedule or job which is included in today's
workload.
backout job. A replacement job that is
automatically submitted by Unicenter CA-Scheduler
when a job abends provided that
ABEND=BACKOUT on the abended job's base
record.
base record. The record which is required to define
a schedule or job. There is a schedule base record
(SBR) and a job base record (JBR).
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