Job schedule entries

 

If your system does not have the Management Central Scheduler or the Advanced Job Scheduler, you can still schedule jobs using a job schedule entry, which is accessed from the character-based interface. Using this method you can schedule jobs to recur or to run only once.

Since job schedule entries are entries in a permanent object, they do not stay on the job queue like the scheduled jobs, and therefore they are not lost when the job queue is cleared. You can also save and restore the job schedule object. This provides a method of backing up your job scheduling information.

When you want a job to process at regular intervals, you create a job schedule entry for the job. The job schedule entry contains all of the information that is necessary to submit a job and its scheduling information. Each entry in the object is uniquely identified by the job name that you supply and a 6-digit entry number that is assigned by the system. No two entries have the same job name and entry number combinations.

The job schedule entry also contains information used by the system to manage the entry in certain situations. The information that defines the job is similar to the parameters specified on a Submit Job (SBMJOB) command, including job name, job description, job queue, user profile, and message queue. The local data area (LDA) of the job submitted from the job schedule entry is blank when the job starts.

All job schedule entries are contained in the job schedule object. The job schedule object, QDFTJOBSCD is in the QUSRSYS library and has an object type of *JOBSCD. You cannot create, delete, rename, or duplicate the job schedule object. You cannot move it to any other library. The job schedule object is shipped with public authority of *CHANGE. This is the minimum authority necessary to add, change, hold, release, and remove job schedule entries.

You can also schedule recurring jobs by using the Management Central Scheduler or the Advanced Job Scheduler.

• Examples: job schedule entry
  This topic provides examples for using the Add Job Schedule Entry (ADDJOBSCDE) command.

 

Parent topic:

Job scheduling options

Related concepts
Management Central scheduler Advanced Job Scheduler The submit job command Job scheduler considerations Job scheduling and system availability Working with job schedule entries