Schedule a job to run at a particular time

vtham · New User Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Chennai

Hello,

Is there any means to schedule a job to run at a particular time, somekind of parameter that could be added to the JCL which would trigger the job at that instance otherthan using schedulers like OPC, CA7??

Thanks.

superk · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:01 pm

No.

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tchen40 · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:47 pm

There's nothing in JCL. However, there are JES2 automatic commands that could be run off a timer. You could submit the auto command from your job via an IEBEDIT.

The command could look like this:

/*$TA,T=36.00,'$VS,''S JOB,MBR=MYJOB '''

This will submit a job at 12 noon. Caveats:

1) There must be a proc named JOB in the proclib concatenations.
2) The proc also (from my sample) have a substitutinal parameter of JOB. That proc is normally an IEBEDIT job (or any program that can submit a job to the internal reader) and point to the PDS that has a member JOB.