NetBatch-Plus Reference Manual

Introducing NetBatch-Plus
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Selecting and Submitting Jobs in Bulk
category of those jobs. By supporting these varied selection criteria, the NetBatch-Plus
application gives you extremely powerful bulk job selection facilities.
Schedulers and Classes
You can specify selection of jobs that run in a particular scheduler and belong to a
particular class. For added flexibility, you can also specify a range of schedulers and
classes by using wild-card characters in the scheduler and class names. For example,
you could enter \*.$ZBAT to specify the NetBatch scheduler process $ZBAT on all
nodes.
Run Dates and Categories
You specify run dates and categories for a job on the Bulk Job Selection Criteria
screen.
Run dates are the dates on which you want the job to run. For example, the fifteenth of
the month could be the run date for payroll jobs.
Categories are a convenient way of linking related jobs. For example, you could
specify the category PAYROLL as the selection criterion for each payroll job in your
organization. You could then make these jobs eligible for selection in a bulk submit run
by specifying PAYROLL as the selection criterion for the run.
You can also use categories as calendar categories to store several run dates. For
example, as a calendar category, PAYROLL could specify various run dates for payroll
jobs. You could then make the jobs eligible for selection in a run either by specifying
one of those run dates as the selection criteria or the category PAYROLL. By
specifying the date, you make eligible all payroll jobs due to run on that date. By
specifying the category PAYROLL, you ensure that all payroll jobs are eligible,
regardless of their run dates.
Figure 1-6 on page 1-11 gives an example of job selection by the bulk submit program.
The selection criteria for the run specify jobs with a run date of September 15, 1991,
whose scheduler is $ZBAT, and whose class name begins with C. The bulk submit
program only selects jobs B and F in the run because:
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The scheduler for jobs B and F ($ZBAT) matches the selection criteria for the run
(\*.$ZBAT).
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The jobs’ classes (C2 for job B and C6 for job F) match the class selection criteria
(C*).
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The calendar categories specified for jobs B and F contain a run date (15Sep1991)
matching the date specified for the bulk submit run.