Scheduling a job using Management Central Scheduler

If you do not have the plug-in Advanced Job Scheduler installed, you can use the Management Central Scheduler to schedule jobs.

You can start the Management Central scheduler by clicking on the Schedule button that appears on many of the iSeries™ Navigator windows. For example suppose you want to use iSeries Navigator Run Command window to submit a clean up job but you do not want that job to run until after peak hours.

In iSeries Navigator right-click the server that you want to run the clean up job and click Run Command.

From the Run Command window, type in the character-based syntax for running your job. If you need assistance type in the first command and click Prompt.

When you have completed the command, click Schedule. The Management Central Scheduler window displays where you can schedule this job to run once, or run as a recurring job.

You can schedule a task to run once, in which case the task runs a single time beginning at the specified date and time. Tasks that run only once are removed from the Scheduled Tasks container when they run. They then appear in a Task Activity container.

Do not use the Work with Job Schedule Entries (WRKJOBSCDE) to alter or delete a scheduled job if that job was scheduled using the Management Central Scheduler or the Advanced Job Scheduler. If the job is altered or deleted by using WRKJOBSCDE, Management Central is not notified of the changes. The task might not run as expected, and error messages can appear in the Management Central server job logs.

If it is necessary to make a change to a job that was schedule using the Management Central Scheduler or the Advanced Job Scheduler, use the iSeries Navigator interface.

Parent topic:

Managing job scheduling