Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

3.1 Defining Schedules
3.1 Defining Schedules
A schedule contains one or more jobs that are grouped together because they
share similarities. Jobs in the same schedule might all:
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Belong to the same application
Run on the same day
Have the same operational dependencies or, most importantly,
Belong together because that is how your site is organized
Grouping jobs in schedules is easier because jobs can be selected whenever
their schedules are selected, and many schedule options apply to all jobs
within a schedule. That means you can define jobs faster if you specify their
common characteristics on a schedule record.
In this chapter, the examples we use do not store much information in
schedule records. But as time goes on, you will find it is easy to implement
special features such as
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Having Unicenter CA-Scheduler issue messages when work falls behind or
Defining when to submit jobs
by changing just schedule records instead of every job record.
All users with write passwords can define schedule records. This topic shows
you how by
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Planning schedules
Defining a schedule base record
Checking which defaults apply to schedules
Learning the basics about a schedule record
Defining optional schedule records
3.1.1 Planning Schedules
As you start using Unicenter CA-Scheduler, do not try to automate everything
at once. If you do, you will be overwhelmed with details. Instead, start getting
comfortable with Unicenter CA-Scheduler by defining just a few simple
schedules first. You will start by outlining a schedule for your site's backup
runs. This example shows how easy defining a schedule can be. Later
examples will show optional features you can implement when defining
schedules.
When you are deciding what schedules to define for your site, keep these
guidelines in mind:
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Group jobs into schedules by application first. If that gives you an
unmanageable number of jobs for one schedule, subdivide it based on
when jobs run.
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