NetBatch Manual

Contents
NetBatch Manual—522460-004
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3. Scheduler Planning, Configuration, and
Management (continued)
3. Scheduler Planning, Configuration, and
Management (continued)
Scheduler Configuration Commands 3-23
Scheduler Configuration Procedure 3-23
Displaying Scheduler Configuration 3-25
Automating Scheduler Configuration 3-26
Managing Schedulers 3-29
Determining Whether a Scheduler Is Running 3-29
Displaying Scheduler, Executor, and Class Status 3-29
Altering Executor and Class Attributes 3-33
Stopping and Restarting Executors 3-34
Deleting Executors and Classes 3-35
Dealing With Scheduler Log Files 3-38
Enabling and Disabling EMS Event-Message Generation 3-44
Stopping a Scheduler 3-45
4. Job Planning, Submission, and Management
Planning Jobs 4-1
Planning Procedure 4-1
Creating a Job Input File 4-7
Using Completion Codes to Test Process Termination Status 4-7
Identifying Processes of a Job 4-10
ZBAT:JOBINFO 4-12
Submitting Jobs 4-13
Submitting a Job With the SUBMIT JOB Command 4-13
Specifying a Job’s Class and Selection Priority 4-19
Specifying a Job’s Executor Program and the Program’s Run Options and
Parameters 4-20
Specifying a Job’s Input File, Defaults, and PURGE-IN-FILE Attribute 4-21
Specifying a Job’s Output File, Maximum Print Lines or Maximum Print Pages, and
Log File 4-22
Scheduling a Job 4-23
Specifying a Job’s Hold Characteristics 4-26
Controlling a Job’s Behavior on Process Failure 4-28
Specifying a Job’s Tape Drives Requirements 4-30
Specifying a Job’s Dependencies 4-31
Specifying a Job’s ASSIGNs, DEFINEs, and PARAMs 4-34
Specifying a Job’s Description 4-40
Managing Jobs 4-42