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Don't Forget your Unicenter® CA-7® Job Management Calendars this Time of Year



It is recommended that you do a Unicenter CA-7 global RESOLV twice annually-at some point in time between January 1st and June 30th and again sometime after July 1st, and before December 31st, after the next year calendars have been built. Global RESOLVs should be done in batch (using Batch Terminal Interface or CCI Terminal Interface). The syntax for the command is:
RESOLV,OLDYR=*,TEST=NO,PRINT=YES/NO,SCAL=xx
The PRINT can be YES or NO. YES will cause a lot of output and you should be sure that the batchout data set is large enough to handle this. You do not have to put the SCAL parameter on the RESOLV command. If you leave this off, all calendars are subject to the RESOLV command, but, once again, this could cause a lot of output, be sure that the batchout data set is large enough.

Note: You can also use the JOB= keyword with a generic value to control the scope of jobs to be included in a particular RESOLV command execution.

Always check the RESOLV output to be sure that all schedules have been successfully resolved.

Also check the RESOLV output for message SRC1-117 ID MULTIPLE SCHEDULES AT LEAST ONE DAY. This message indicates two or more SCHDIDs are scheduled to process on the same day. This message may indicate a scheduling error was made. You need to determine if the job should process multiple times on the same day. If it should, this is an informational message. If not, then you can add DUPDATE=YES to the RESOLV command to see what date(s) are duplicately scheduled so that the schedule can be corrected.

You can use the LSCHD command to determine if you have any expired schedules or if there are schedules which will expire after June 30, or December 31. Between January 1 and June 30, you can enter the following command to see any schedules that will expire July 1:
LSCHD,DSNBR=SJ*,ST=JUL
OR to see schedules that will expire December 31, enter:
LSCHD,DSNBR=SJ*,ST=JAN
There is also a command you can enter to see if you have any currently expired schedules:
LSCHD,DSNBR=SJ*,ST=EXP
A RESOLV will remove any manual modification(s) done via the SCHDMOD panel to schedules. Before resolving schedules you can do this command to see if any have been SCHDMODed:
LSCHD,DSNBR=SJ*,ST=MOD
Base calendars are required for schedule resolution and can be generated through either batch or online facilities. To use the online facility (DB.2.8), a Unicenter CA-7 calendar PDS must be allocated and identified to Unicenter CA-7. See the CA-7 Release 3.3 Systems Programmer Guide for information on enabling online calendar maintenance. Processing of base calendars for resolution of schedules is the same regardless of whether they were generated using the batch or online facilities.

Calendars can also be generated in batch through the Unicenter CA-7 CALENDAR macro. Macro keywords are used for calendar definition and the macro is assembled and link edited using standard procedures. Base calendars are link edited to the Unicenter CA-7 LOADLIB or a specified calendar library, and are stored in the form of bit masks which represent available and unavailable processing days for the year. Each calendar defines a single year comprised of twelve months with a starting and ending year boundary that can be crossed only in the first or twelfth month.

Use the PRINT command to produce a month-by-month listing of a calendar. PRINT produces output which reflects the beginning and ending days of each month, holidays, or any other non-processing days that were defined when the calendar was produced. The PRINT command is described in the CA-7 Release 3.3 Commands Guide.

Whenever a calendar-oriented processing schedule expires (at the end of June or the end of the year) or the scheduling frequency is redefined for any other reason, it again becomes necessary to resolve the schedule. Options on the RESOLV command are provided for resolving all or any subset of those tasks scheduled with a single command. The RESOLV command is fully described in the CA-7 Release 3.3 Commands Guide.

 

 
 
 
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