Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

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3.1.4.5 What Schedule Fields Are Used for Simulation? . . . . . . . 3-15
3.1.4.6 What General Users Can Update this Schedule Record? . . 3-16
3.1.4.7 What Happens When Schedules Run Late? . . . . . . . . . . 3-16
3.1.4.8 Creating Optional Schedule Records? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17
3.2 Defining Optional Schedule Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19
3.2.1 Defining a Schedule Criteria Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21
3.2.2 Defining a Schedule Reason Code Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-24
3.2.3 Defining a Schedule Information Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-26
3.2.4 Defining a Schedule Message Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-27
3.3 Copying Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-29
3.4 Displaying Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-32
3.5 Deleting Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-36
3.6 Analyzing Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-40
3.7 Automatic Console Replies for Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-44
3.7.1.1 To ADD a New Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-45
3.7.1.2 ALTer or REPlace an Auto-Reply Record . . . . . . . . . . . 3-47
3.7.1.3 To DELete an Auto-Reply Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-49
3.8 Summary of Schedule Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-51
3.9 Defining Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-53
3.9.1 Defining a Job Base Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-53
3.9.2 Checking Default Values for Job Base Records . . . . . . . . . . 3-56
3.9.3 Learning the Basics About a Job Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-58
3.9.3.1 Which Users Can Work with Job Records? . . . . . . . . . . 3-58
3.9.3.2 When Will Jobs Be Selected? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-58
3.9.3.3 When Will Jobs Actually Run? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-59
3.9.3.4 Does This Job Record Describe a Job Performed on the CPU? 3-64
3.9.3.5 What JCL Does Unicenter CA-Scheduler Submit for CPU
Jobs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-65
3.9.3.6 On Which CPU Should Jobs Be Run? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-66
3.9.3.7 Once a Job Starts, How Can You Intervene? . . . . . . . . . 3-68
3.9.3.8 What Happens When Jobs Don't End Successfully? . . . . . 3-68
3.9.3.9 How Do You Phase Unicenter CA-Scheduler into
Production? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-70
3.9.3.10 What Job Fields are Used for Simulation? . . . . . . . . . . 3-71
3.9.3.11 How and When Can You Display Documentation
Automatically? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-72
3.9.3.12 What Happens When Jobs Run Late? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-72
3.9.3.13 How Do You Create Optional Job Records? . . . . . . . . . 3-74
3.9.3.14 Copying Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-75
3.9.4 Defining Optional Job Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-77
3.9.4.1 Defining a Job Criteria Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-77
3.9.4.2 Defining a Job's Reason Code Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-79
3.9.4.3 Defining a Job Information Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-82
3.9.4.4 Creating a Job Message Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-83
3.9.4.5 Defining a Job Resource Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-85
3.9.4.6 Defining Job Node Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-89
3.10 Displaying and Updating a Job Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-91
3.11 Deleting Job Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-97
3.12 Analyzing Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-101
3.13 Automatic Console Replies for Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-104
3.13.1.1 To ADD a New Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-105