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Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

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staging file. The <strong>Unicenter</strong> <strong>CA</strong>-<strong>Scheduler</strong> file that<br />

contains staged JCL members. The default name of<br />

the file is <strong>CA</strong>IJSTG.<br />

station. Any area where a job is processed as it<br />

makes its way through the data center. Examples<br />

include production control, data entry, JCL setup,<br />

CPU processing, and report distribution. Also called<br />

a workstation.<br />

substring. Part of the value given to a variable<br />

parameter.<br />

status conditions. The various words (ABENDED,<br />

ENDED, and so <strong>for</strong>th) that <strong>Unicenter</strong> <strong>CA</strong>-<strong>Scheduler</strong><br />

applies to jobs to indicate their current state within<br />

production.<br />

successor. Any job that cannot start until some<br />

event triggers it. <strong>Unicenter</strong> <strong>CA</strong>-<strong>Scheduler</strong>'s criteria<br />

statements allow you to define conditions that must<br />

be met be<strong>for</strong>e a job can start. If JOBA must finish<br />

be<strong>for</strong>e JOBB can start, JOBB is a successor to JOBA.<br />

Conversely, JOBA is a predecessor to JOBB.<br />

Supervisor authority level. The intermediate<br />

authority level which allows users to control all<br />

schedules and jobs at specified stations, even if they<br />

are not authorized on the schedule base record.<br />

However, their scope of authority is limited to just<br />

those stations specified on their user record. See<br />

General and Manager authority levels.<br />

SYSID. The 1-character POWER identifier that<br />

defines the CPU on which <strong>Unicenter</strong> <strong>CA</strong>-<strong>Scheduler</strong><br />

is running.<br />

tracking. <strong>Unicenter</strong> <strong>CA</strong>-<strong>Scheduler</strong> monitors the<br />

progress of jobs by collecting and analyzing data on<br />

events as they occur. As jobs move from station to<br />

station through the data center, <strong>Unicenter</strong><br />

<strong>CA</strong>-<strong>Scheduler</strong> automatically updates their status in<br />

its tracking file.<br />

tracking file. The <strong>Unicenter</strong> <strong>CA</strong>-<strong>Scheduler</strong> file that<br />

contains the copy of current production. The<br />

default name of the file is <strong>CA</strong>IJTRK.<br />

variable parameter. A symbolic parameter that is<br />

defined when a procedure is cataloged and referenced<br />

in the body of the procedure. During expansion, each<br />

reference to the symbolic parameter is replaced with<br />

a default or override value.<br />

work flow. The movement of jobs from station to<br />

station through the data center.<br />

workday. Any day that is not designated a<br />

weekend or a holiday on a calendar or datetable.<br />

workload. The work <strong>Unicenter</strong> <strong>CA</strong>-<strong>Scheduler</strong><br />

anticipates submitting each day. That includes:<br />

1. The schedules and jobs automatically selected by<br />

autoscan to run on that production day based on<br />

the in<strong>for</strong>mation stored in <strong>Unicenter</strong><br />

<strong>CA</strong>-<strong>Scheduler</strong>'s database and<br />

2. The schedules and jobs manually added by<br />

users<br />

See selection.<br />

workstation. Every area where a job is scheduled<br />

<strong>for</strong> processing as it makes its way through the data<br />

center. Examples include production control, data<br />

entry, JCL setup, CPU processing, and report<br />

distribution stations. Also called a station.<br />

X-8 <strong>Unicenter</strong> <strong>CA</strong>-<strong>Scheduler</strong> <strong>User</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>

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