Information Systems:Overnight Schedule

Current Schedule

The overnight processing - which includes end of day, week, month, and year - is run from the job schedule. To see these jobs, key in WRKJOBSCDE and press enter. Page down until you get to job 'ENDOFDAY'. Note that ENDOFMONTH will automatically run the end of year (both fiscal and calendar).

                        Work with Job Schedule Entries                BART     
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Type options, press Enter.                                                     
  2=Change   3=Hold   4=Remove   5=Display details   6=Release                 
  8=Work with last submission    10=Submit immediately                         
                                                                               
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                         -----Schedule------             Recovery  Submit      
Opt  Job         Status  Date       Time      Frequency   Action   Date        
 
__   ENDOFDAY     SCD    USER DEF   01:00:00  *WEEKLY    *NOSBM    10/28/15    
__   ENDOFMONTH   SCD    *MONTHSTR  06:00:00  *MONTHLY   *NOSBM    11/01/15    
__   ENDOFWEEK    SCD    *SUN       01:00:00  *WEEKLY    *NOSBM    11/01/15    
__   EODEMAIL     SCD    *ALL       08:00:00  *WEEKLY    *NOSBM    10/28/15 
__   EODSAVE      SCD    *ALL       03:00:00  *WEEKLY    *NOSBM    10/28/15 
                
Parameters or command                                                          
===> _______________________________________________
F3=Exit   F4=Prompt          F5=Refresh   F6=Add    F9=Retrieve                
F11=Display job queue data   F12=Cancel   F17=Top   F18=Bottom

Programs Called

ENDOFDAY runs Monday through Saturday. The program called is EODDAILY from library UNIPHARMIT.

ENDOFWEEK runs Sunday. The program called is EODWEEKLY from library UNIPHARMIT.

Both of these must run after midnight, as they use yesterday's date instead of today's. Also because the temporary backup tape has a retention period of one day.

ENDOFMONTH runs on the first of the month. The program called is EOM from library UNIPHARMIT.

EODSAVE runs after the daily or weekly processing, and calls EODBU from library UNIPHARMIT, which calls BRMS to do a backup. The secondary function of this is to cancel the previous job if something goes wrong. EODSAVE goes into the system restricted state (which will cancel all running jobs), with a time limit of two and a half hours.

EODEMAIL runs every morning to email users the tape used for backup. The program called is EODEMAIL from library UNIPHARMIT.

Other emails are sent all through the overnight processes. If they are NOT received at the expected times, there MAY be a problem.

Timing Interdependencies

ENDOFDAY and ENDOFWEEK should run at the same time, and must be run after midnight. If not, the temporary backup won't work the first time (because the tape won't be expired), and, as everything is posted to 'yesterday', all the dates in ASW will be wrong.

EODSAVE must run at least two hours after the end of day and of week. Of course, if the length of time they take to run approaches two hours, this will have to be adjusted.

ENDOFMONTH must run at least three hours after EODSAVE. If the system is still in the restricted state at it's scheduled time, it will not run. It will then have to called manually.

EODEMAIL must be run when the Catapult server is active.

Change Scheduled Start Time

The length of time these jobs take to run must be monitored to make sure there is enough time, plus some leeway, before the next job is started. Before you change a start time check for interdependencies.

To change the time a job starts, use option 2.

                    Change Job Schedule Entry (CHGJOBSCDE)                     
                                                                               
Type choices, press Enter.                                                     
                                                                               
Job name . . . . . . . . . . . . > ENDOFMONTH    Name                          
Entry number . . . . . . . . . . > 000029        000001-999999, *ONLY          
Command to run . . . . . . . . .   CALL PGM(UNIPHARMIT/EOM)                    
                                                                               
Frequency  . . . . . . . . . . .   *MONTHLY      *SAME, *ONCE, *WEEKLY...      
Schedule date  . . . . . . . . .   *MONTHSTR     Date, *SAME, *CURRENT...      
Schedule day . . . . . . . . . .   *NONE         *SAME, *NONE, *ALL, *MON...   
               + for more values                                               
Schedule time  . . . . . . . . .   '06:00:00'    Time, *SAME, *CURRENT         
                                                                               
F3=Exit   F4=Prompt   F5=Refresh   F10=Additional parameters   F12=Cancel      
F13=How to use this display        F24=More keys                               

Key in the new 'Schedule time', using a 24 hour clock, with colons. Press enter to update. When you return to the list of job schedule entries, you will have to press F5 to refresh.

Manually Run Scheduled Job

The only jobs I can think of that might need to be run manually are ENDOFMONTH or EODEMAIL. To do this, sign on as EODJOB with our favorite password to set up the correct environment - and to put reports in the correct spool file.

Key in WRKJOBSCDE and press enter. Page to the job you want to run. Use option 10, then Enter, to submit immediately.